![]() ![]() "Fifteen years ago the segregation of vice was the common rule in most American cities. Hallman, member of the Chicago vice commission, writes: Regarding red light districts, Wirt W.In like manner this general disregard and overthrow of the old historic forms of American morality which for years have been the controlling factors in molding American character, will, if continued, inevitably lead to a deterioration in the moral, and indirectly, in the intellectual fiber of the nation." (Pages 456-7) Persisted in, such a movement would sound the death-knell of true art. "Women smoking, jazz dancing, obscene music, libidinous abandon of the stage, increase of divorce and illegitimacy - these are symptoms of a general revolt against the ancient Christian standards of morality.Ĭubism in painting, having no evolutionary background in the noble creation of the past meant only a frightful perversion of the historic use of the canvass and brush. ![]() Comparing lax morals with cubism, of all things, Yarrow writes:.Here are some of the passages I found interesting: ![]()
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