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Whitehead 
Adventures in Ideas.
Jan. 31.
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reaches beyond the safe limits of the epoch and beyond the safe limits of learned rules of taste. It then produces the dislocations and confusions marking the advent of new ideals for civilized effort.

'Art should aim at the production of individuality in the component details of its compositions. The very details make their own claim to individuality & yet contribute to the whole. Each detail claims a permanent existence for its own sake, & then surrenders it for the sake of the whole composition.

'The value of discord arises from this importance of the forceful individuality of the details. The discord enhances the whole, when it serves to substantiate the individuality of the parts. It brings into emphatic feeling their claim to existence in their own right. It rescues the whole from the tameness of merely qualitative harmony.


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Art Books 
Chinese Pwe - Nicoletti
February 1
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AM Started watercolor - landscape with figures - dry - but not bad.

5 o'clock, took typewritten notes prepared by Dorothy of my talk to U Hla Shain - Had tea with him in the garden. Joined by Sau [[strikethrough]] Winter [[/strikethrough]] Win, painter, who had brought several small examples of Buddhist art to show me. They are small terra cottas of the Buddha, from Prome - most of them two thousand years old. Beautiful things which I would like to own. Hla Shain showed me three new water colors & we, as usual talked painting. I promised to send a few art volumes of reproductions in color to him - Degas, Matisse, Picasso & others I might think of use to Burmese painters.

At 7.30 went with Andre Nicoletti to see the Chinese guest artists perform. The first part - acting - a little like Kabuki, Sword dance was good - singers had good voices - flutists - Interesting peasant dance - costumes reminiscent of the Caucasus -