ABSTRACT
"Art," Geddes went on musingly, "demands Practical Co-ordination, plus Conception (Imagination, Design), plus Workmanship (Technique); then Passion will give creative execution: a combination of Intuition with Emotion, yet with Intellectualism, too." In the works of the new groups of modern poets— young people still too vaguely aware of this rising order—we see too often the attempt to make Imagination, Design and Poesy serve alone, indeed often without due endeavour of Design: witness too much of the revolutionary painting, sculpture and decoration. The great art of our nascent Renaissance—let us call it Revivance—will be thus unified from within each artist's mind, yet called for by the community awakening to its best regional and civic traditions, and to its present dismal state with its urgent needs. The conversation passed to the topic of sex, by which the art and literature of to-day are so much obsessed.
