The Devil at the Fair

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Excerpt from The Devil at the Fair: Or Reflections on Nude Art To "boost" our glorious Fair, is the duty of every loyal citizen. Its intelligent and generous directors, having "gone the limit" to make an Exposition of surpassing grandeur, everybody should get in line behind the band-wagon and cheer. All the buildings are profusely embellished, but some of the decorations reveal amazing taste... Stuck on columns, fountains, pedestals and panels, all around the Fair, are many large nude human statues, modeled true to nature and astonishingly free from timid or prudish concealment of things usually covered with fig leaves or breechclouts. The figures are grand and inspiring spectacles, calculated to arouse great religious enthusiasm in ordinary observers but the statues of Angels, also shown stripped Stark Naked, with spreading wings and exposing conspicuous sexual objects, are certainly ne plus ultra embellishment which may cause pious visitors and the clergy to glow with enthusiastic pride, and sing peans for the Fair directors and their exalted ideals. With "naked truth" it is a startling advertisement for Western morality, also jocosely appreciated by tenderloin habitues, and curiously edifying for innocent children. Considering that the wise and zealous officials expended a stupendous fortune for this chaste and beautiful feature, all should cheerfully assist in giving deserved notoriety to Art of such transcendent gracefulness and purity. Hic patel ingenils campus. (Here is a field open for genius.) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.