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Designs for Cushions 
HERE AND THERE 
IN THE 
TURIN EXPOSITION 
BY 
VIRGINIA BUTLftR 
By F. H. New btry 
NY visitor to the First International Ex¬ 
hibition of Decorative Art, but recently 
brought to a close in Turin, could not fail 
to be convinced that modern art has made a 
place for itseli in the world, notwithstanding 
the odds against 
which it has had 
to contend in the 
weight and force 
of tradition and 
example, especi¬ 
ally in European 
countries where 
the past has 
almost, though 
not quite, handi¬ 
capped the pres¬ 
ent in things 
artistic. That 
Italy, with her 
wonderful artis¬ 
tic heritage, 
should have been 
the first to pro¬ 
pose an art exhi¬ 
bition in which 
old traditions and 
models should 
be entirely ex¬ 
cluded, marks an 
era in the artis¬ 
tic life of that 
country which 
will have a wide¬ 
spread and last¬ 
ing influence. 
The sugestion 
that an exhibi¬ 
WROUGHT IRON ELECTROLIER WITH BAS-RELIEFS 
Designed by Alice Nordin 
tion of art should be held in which everything 
modeled on old lines should be carefully 
excluded, was received in some quarters with 
indifference; in others, with a certain air of 
disdain, which plainly declared the absurdity 
of trying to sep¬ 
arate the old and 
the new. 
But the group 
of men in whose 
brains the idea of 
such an exhibi¬ 
tion first took 
form, declared 
that in order to 
see what modern 
art really means 
and has really 
done, it must be 
studied apart 
from the old 
with its precon¬ 
ceived ideas and 
methods, in 
order to judge of 
its true merits. 
By degrees the 
opposition to the 
project grew less, 
and at last nearly 
all who had at 
first opposed it 
agreed that it 
might not be a 
bad thing after 
all, and were 
"ing to 
wi 
help 
along the under- 
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