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Storm Breaks Over
Christ of Epstein
London Schools
IS IT BARBARISM 56,651 Fewor In
OR RELIGION?.
"Courageous, says
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Buyer of Genesis
Publication recently of pictures of Mr. Jacob Epstein's newest statue, "Consummatum Est" ("It Is Finished")—|| a recumbent figure of Christ-brought the first rumblings of another Epstein storm.
Artists, sculptors and architects who had studied the pictures gave their views to the News Chronicle.
The divergence of opinion they re-pool University, member of the Lon- vealed is likely to be multiplied when don Board of Architectural Educa- tion, sald after he had seen the pie- the Man in the Street becomes aware ture: of this newest creation by the most
"Epstein, you know, is an archi- talked-about seulptor of this genera~ | tectural scupltor. He should
with Mendelssohn, the
tion.
working
Mr. Eric Gill, one of the foremost architect who is doing the new Uni- versity in Palestine. Everything architectural sculptors in Britain, looked hard at a Epstein does ins an large-scale photograph of the statue quality. He needs the background of
enormous buildings." and said:
BUYER OF "GENESIS" "If I had discovered this 'monstrous
Mr. Alfred Bossom, M.P., a Fellow piece of sculpture on some doserted island should have said: This is a of the Royal Institute of Architecture, jolly fine piece
bought Epstein's last great of work. Though who even then I should have supposed statue "Genesis," said recently: that it was meant to stand upright: it seems to have the attitude of person actively displaying hiraself- It has not the passivity of a corpse. "WHAT IS IT FOR?"
"But I am necustomed to carve a statue to order, for a particular pur- pose and place. Therefore I find difficult to criticise this statue except from this point of view: What is it for? Where is it going?
Sir Charles Allom is head of a big firm of architectural contractors, and Is a member of the Board of Educa- Art tion's Advisory Committee on Education. He said:
"It is impossible to think that One who excelled all others in the world in mental alertness should have existed in
form so hopelessly besotted.
most
"The picture shows that this is a statue which illustrates powerfully the great sacrifice that our Lord made. It seems to me to be
a very courageous piece of work. It is to be viewed from
Childran in tho L.C.C. elementary schools last April, statos a roturn to be sub- mitted, to the L.C.C. Educa- tion Committee, numbered 543,611, Д roduction of 56,651 on the 1935 total, compared with a decrease of 70,416 on the previous two years.
Main factors responsible were the fall in the birth rate and migration to areas beyond the Administrative County of London.
Heaviest reductions took
place in Southwark, Chamber-
well and Poplar.
Promotion Grievances In Army
DRASTIC ACTION
TO BE TAKEN
Drastic action is to bo laken by Mr. Horo-Belisha, Secretary of State for War! io redress grievances caused by the present system of promotion in Army.
The first step will be to end the above. Do you know of any other system of regimental promotion. piece of sculpture like it?
"I will be attacked, of
Under the new rulings, shortly to course.be announced, all officers will nuto-
ranks
But I would say this: Strong stuff is matically obtain promotion after a typical of this age. The age of sweet stum is over." Epstein has made fixed number of years in every culptor to-day think twice be- below that of lieut-colonel. fore he gets to work."
So unjust, has the present
the system proved that
three senior captains of the Wiltshire Regiment lave held that rank since January 1, 1917-more than 20 years.
What had Mr. Epstein to say re- cently?
He said: "It's no good trying to get the right ideas into the heads of wrongheaded people."
In a number of other
regiments
"Epstein is a great artist, but he Severe Winter Predicted senior captains have put in 15 and 14
Is simply throwing away his migh-
ty gifts for this filthy modern stuff.
It is equalled only by some of the
work of * few savages in more or
less distant times.
L
years' service In that rank.
Rhinelander, Wis.
On the other hand, in some units Conservation wardens believe that of the cavalry the senior captains frequent raids by northern Wisconsin have held their rank for only five "These moderns think they are bears on kitchens, gardens, orchards years. copying one another in reproducing and beehives indicates the coming of the prototypes-of-some-of-the-half-fa-severe-winter-Other-wildlife, That means that men who were educated races."
students insist, however, that the ghting for their country in the war Professor C. 1. Reilly, Emeritus bears have been driven to the raids have become juniors to those who Professor of Architecture at Liver by a shortage of berries.
were only schoolboys at that time,
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