ABSTRACT
in any age there exists a confusion of values, due to temporary conditions of an economic or social character, psychic disturbances which interfere with the clear perception of what is enduring in human creation. That is to say, a given age always looks at its contemporary art with contemporary prejudices. When, in the course of time, these prejudices disappear, the art of that given age is revalued and again with contemporary prejudices—the prejudices of a new age. We need not deny that certain values persist through all ages; but we must recognize that it is always difficult at any historical moment to distinguish them clearly.
