CHAPTER X

Loss of comprehensibility—Decadent art—Recent French art—Have we a right to say it is bad and that what we like is good art?—The highest art has always been comprehensible to normal people—What fails to infect normal people is not art 79

## CHAPTER XI Counterfeits of art produced by: Borrowing; Imitating; Striking; Interesting—Qualifications needful for production of real works of art, and those sufficient for production of counterfeits 106

## CHAPTER XII Causes of production of counterfeits—Professionalism—Criticism—Schools of art 118

## CHAPTER XIII Wagner’s “Nibelung’s Ring” a type of counterfeit art—Its success, and the reasons thereof 128

## CHAPTER XIV Truths fatal to preconceived views are not readily recognised—Proportion of works of art to counterfeits—Perversion of taste and incapacity to recognise art—Examples 143

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