Chronology Entry
Year
1913
Text
Letter from Roger Fry to G. Lowes Dickinson ; Paris, 1 June, 1913.
The East is thoroughly ransacked by arts dealers and… one can learn more about the best things in Paris than in Beijing. I've just seen a show in Paris full of the most amazing things among them the fineset Wei dynasty statues from somewhere away in the West of China as fine as any ever done. The Chinese pictures Bob's got aren't much (tho' they're pleasant pretty things) but it's evident that the really big things are never accessible. The Chinese know too much about it for that.
The East is thoroughly ransacked by arts dealers and… one can learn more about the best things in Paris than in Beijing. I've just seen a show in Paris full of the most amazing things among them the fineset Wei dynasty statues from somewhere away in the West of China as fine as any ever done. The Chinese pictures Bob's got aren't much (tho' they're pleasant pretty things) but it's evident that the really big things are never accessible. The Chinese know too much about it for that.
Mentioned People (2)
Dickinson, G. Lowes
(London 1862-1932 London) : Schriftsteller, Historiker, Philosoph, Lecturer in History King's College Cambridge
Fry, Roger
(London 1866-1934 London) : Maler, Kunstkritiker, Slade Professor of Fine Arts, University of Cambridge
Subjects
Art : General
Documents (1)
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| 1 | 2003 | Laurence, Patricia. Lily Briscoe's Chinese eyes : Bloomsbury, modernism, and China. (Columbia, S.C. : University of South Carolina Press, 2003). [Betr. Virginia Woolf, Ling Shuhua, Julian Bell]. S. 332. | Publication / Woolf3 |
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