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That we are living in an age of paradoxes may have been a familiar fact to readers of Mr. Chesterton but it has never been impressed upon the average man as at present. At the end of a war fought to "make the world safe for democracy", Europe is tottering between the dictatorship of the proletariat in the person of Lenin and the dictatorship of the strong man in the persons of Mussolini and Primo Rivera, while German democracy steers a narrow course, apparently doomed to failure, between the Scylla of hungry reds and the Charybdis of angry nationalists. Meanwhile...
Gilbert K. Chesterton: "My objection to socialism is that it is really only the culmination of capitalism, and my objection to capitalism is that it is likely to turn into socialism. I intend to start a new weekly magazine to combat monopoly of both kinds...
From this, Mr. Tyrrell concludes that Chesterton is quite wrong about Picasso and the mad modern artists...
However, though it certainly is not crazy, modern art, according to M. Faure himself, is in a " muddle." It is lost and groping its way in its search for new forms, and this naturally troubles such conservatives as Chesterton. The followers of Michael Angelo (individualists, like Picasso) represented a definite decline in Italian art. Are the imitators of Picasso also on the wrong tack...
...Chesterton also objects to this phase, as being an affectation. He is convinced that modern artists are mad, whatever they choose...