...real life. It is a good joke, this of Nature paling before Art, or reduced to plagiarising Art, — " Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those...that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? "—but as the basis of a philosophy of Art...

...then, and takes her effects from him ? Vivian. Certainly. Where, if not from the Impres1 sionists, do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping...do we owe the lovely silver mists that brood over our.river, and turn to faint forms of fading grace curved bridge and swaying barge ? The extraordinary...

...shows what really is behind the theory he voices with such delightful humour and extravagance : — " Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those...that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows ? To whom, if not to them and their master,...

...structures when they become inadequate or unsatisfying. 'Where, if not from the Impressionists', he asked, 'do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping...gaslamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows?' But if life imitates art, where does art come from? The answer given is: from other art, especially...

...especially the imaginative representations of art. And he offered characteristically outrageous proof. Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those...gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? . . . The extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London during the last ten years...

...- stealing a bit from Whistler, and setting himself up, I'd guess, to be stolen from by TS Eliot - "do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blurring the gas lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows?" 36 ) Her work's vitality, though, its capacity...

...environment in a more perceptive manner. "Where, if not from the Impressionists," asks Oscar Wilde, "do we get those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down our streets, blousing the gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows? To whom, if not to them ......

...Art', and Vivian, who is 'prepared to prove anything', produces his description of Impressionist fogs, 'those wonderful brown fogs that come creeping down...gas-lamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows': At present, people see fogs, not because there are fogs, but because poets and painters have taught...

...Huysmans's (1848-1907) À Rebours (1884). Wilde wrote about the city in "The Decay of Lying" (1889): "Where if not from the Impressionists, do we get those...gaslamps and changing the houses into monstrous shadows?" (33). Wilde's remarks apply particularly well to Joyce's method of recording Stephen Dedalus's impressions...

..."Cyril: Nature follows the landscape painter, then, and takes her effects from him? Vivian: Certainly. Where, if not from the Impressionists, do we get those...faint forms of fading grace curved bridge and swaying bärge? The extraordinary change that has taken place in the climate of London during the last ten...