Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1909-07-24
MarhekcSgzlaxe, LlchheId

! economy and the passing influences OF
| the moment combine to .nullfy the good
impression consistently produced by the
1 museums. 1t is just in industrial art
| which is the domain of the decoration
| of the home, that the grossest offences
| against the canons of good taste are
perpetrated and SO Professor Pazaurek
as director of the INurtemberg indus
trial museum, was the right man to ar
| range the first museum of bad taste
the world has ever seen.
| For ten years he has waged his war
against the spread of bad taste and
While director of the Northern Boz
hemiar Museum at Prague he tried in
vain &c get permission to make the ex-
| pertinent of showing people the reverse
of the medal by opening a collection
| of horrible examples. But trade influ-
| enccs were, too strong. his tsuperiors did
| not venture to risk the innovation so
! it was not until he became the indie
1 pendent director of the beautiful rnu-
scum at Stuttgart that Prof. Pazaurek
was able. to carry out his life's mis-
| sion.
WAR ON SHAM AND SHoDDY.
The Museum of Art Indiscretions as
| the professor calls his collection, has
attracted considerable attention not
only from the originality of the idea
/
| of its aims. Its founder has declared
war on everything smacking of. sham
and Shoddy, against canvas masquer-
aiding as leather, painted wood as mar
BILE prepared linen as silk or satin. He
is ruthlesslY severe in his. condemna-
ton of limitations in modern substances
OF the masterpieces in statuary,5 porce-
lain or wood carving issuing. from the
great workshops and centers of indus
try of the past. The catalogue OF the
museum is an amazing. work. 1t be-
trays the exhaustive study of years
into a score of trades and 1T CLASHES
and subdivides the exhibits withsa pre-
cision and command of technical ter
minology which is simply mastery.
The museum Is divided into three
groups illustrating lapses from, good
taste in material, in construction and
in decoration.
TheSirst group illustrates what Prof
Pazaurek calls 'Preciosities in Mate
rial" that is to say, examples of things
which pretend to be what they are not
or are made of materials which are
quite irrelevant to the destined use. We
all know those china flower va SEES
made to look like followed out tree
trunks, those little boxes made of
metal to represent hampers or those
ash trays the pride of many O. saloon
bar, constructed with infinite labor out
of so many hundred cigar bands or
postage stamps. All these articles fall
under the professors ban and may be
seen in the glass cases at Stuttgart.
sENsELEss COMBINATIONS.
Then there are the senseless combina-
lions of materials, such as OF silk and
linen. which will not wash, articles
manufactured out Of freak" materials
(such as human hair),. all the varieties
of substances from canvas to linoleum
used for initiating leather and objects
made from substances foreign to their
nature. This subdivision comprises
inter ALA chocolate busts of the Kaiser,
such as are often seen in pastry cooks
windows in Germany, and vaseg,
statues and busts in wood or plaster.
faxed to resemble marble. granite, etc
The second group, Faults of Con-
struction,'' includes all articles which
do not fulfill the object for which their
appearance proclaims them to be In
tended. such, as metal vessels for hold
ing hot fluids, with nan-isolated metal
handles which get so hot, when the
vessel is fulfilling its purpose, that
they cannot fulfill their purpose, l. e.
he held, vases or china figures of un-
stable build and furniture of such
grotesaue shape as to be impractical
Bile for ordinary purposes. AS exam
pies there are chairs with such sharp