CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER IX

Perversion of our art--It has lost its natural subject-matter--Has no flow of fresh feeling--Transmits chiefly three base emotions 406

CHAPTER X

Loss of comprehensibility--Decadent art--Recent French art--Have we a right to say it is bad and that what we like is good art?--The highest art has always been comprehensible to normal people--What fails to infect normal people is not art 412

CHAPTER XI

Counterfeits of art produced by: Borrowing; Imitating; Striking; Interesting--Qualifications needful for production of real works of art, and those sufficient for production of counterfeits 436

CHAPTER XII

Causes of production of counterfeits--Professionalism-- Criticism--Schools of art 446

CHAPTER XIII

Wagner's "Nibelung's Ring" a type of counterfeit art--Its success, and the reasons thereof 455

CHAPTER XIV

Truths fatal to preconceived views are not readily recognized--Proportion of works of art to counterfeits--Perversion of taste and incapacity to recognize art--Examples 468