Essays on ArtC. Scribner's Sons, 1920 - 143 strani These essays are reprinted for the most part from the Times Literary Supplement. They treat a well worn subject with brevity, originality and conciseness. These articles address the professional side of art and its social and democratic aspects. |
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... taste in art is an irrational mystery ; they trust in the expert and usually in the wrong one , as the ignorant and superstitious trust in the wrong priest . For as religion is merely mischievous unless it is tested in matters of ...
... taste in art is an irrational mystery ; they trust in the expert and usually in the wrong one , as the ignorant and superstitious trust in the wrong priest . For as religion is merely mischievous unless it is tested in matters of ...
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... taste . Art was and remained a proper interest of men up to the eighteenth century . Women first began to control it and to affect its character at the mistress - ridden Court of Louis XV . But in the nineteenth century men began to ...
... taste . Art was and remained a proper interest of men up to the eighteenth century . Women first began to control it and to affect its character at the mistress - ridden Court of Louis XV . But in the nineteenth century men began to ...
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... tastes of the Pompadour and the Du Barri , became consciously frivolous , became almost a part of the toilet . The artist was the slave of the mistress , and seems to have enjoyed his chains . In this slavery he did produce something ...
... tastes of the Pompadour and the Du Barri , became consciously frivolous , became almost a part of the toilet . The artist was the slave of the mistress , and seems to have enjoyed his chains . In this slavery he did produce something ...
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... tastes ; or at least they have not learned that all this æsthetic irrationality misrepresents them , that it is forced upon them by tradesmen , that it is as inexpressive as a sentimental music- hall song sung by a gramophone . But now ...
... tastes ; or at least they have not learned that all this æsthetic irrationality misrepresents them , that it is forced upon them by tradesmen , that it is as inexpressive as a sentimental music- hall song sung by a gramophone . But now ...
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... taste . The antique was not for him an aristocratic world of art that he tried to enter in the hope of becoming ... tastes with classical subjects . When he painted a Flemish cook as Venus he really tried to make her look like Venus ...
... taste . The antique was not for him an aristocratic world of art that he tried to enter in the hope of becoming ... tastes with classical subjects . When he painted a Flemish cook as Venus he really tried to make her look like Venus ...
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activity æsthetic art critic artist audience aware beauty of art beauty of nature become Beethoven believe colour conscience craftsman cubist delight effort ence enjoy exist experience of art expression fact feel feminine German Giotto goose-step happen happiness human imitate incongruous intellectual invention judge judgment kind Last Judgment Last Supper Leonardo libretto listen live look Louis Quinze machines Magic Flute mankind mass matter means ment merely Michelangelo mind modern Morris Mozart mystery never objects ornament ourselves painter painting Papageno passion past perceived person pity platitudes pleasure poet poetry Pompadour Poussin practise pretend primitive produce professionalism reality Rubens sacred mystery Samuel Butler Sarostro's seems sense Sir Thomas Jackson society superfluous energy supreme taste tell theory things thought Tintoret tion Titian Tolstoy tradesman ugliness uncon understand universe visible world Vorticist waste of labour Whistler wilful wisdom women wonder workman worship
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Stran 128 - SONG. WHEN the voices of children are heard on the green And laughing is heard on the hill, My heart is at rest within my breast, And everything else is still. Then come home, my children, the sun is gone ' down, And the dews of night arise ; Come, come, leave off play, and let us away Till the morning appears in the skies.
Stran 62 - Art is a human activity, consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them.
Stran 126 - The town has found out different ways To praise its different Lears; To Barry it gives loud huzzas, To Garrick only tears. " A king ? Aye, every inch a king, Such Barry doth appear; But Garrick's quite another thing — He's every inch King Lear.
Stran 123 - The virgins also shall, on feastful days, Visit his tomb with flowers, only bewailing His lot unfortunate in nuptial choice, From whence captivity and loss of eyes.
Stran 59 - ... goblets, fashioned cunningly, taking no note the while of the craftsman's pride, and understanding not his glory in his work; drinking at the cup, not from choice, not from a consciousness that it was beautiful, but because, forsooth, there was none other ! And...
Stran 58 - In the beginning, man went forth each day - some to do battle - some to the chase - others again to dig and to delve in the field - all that they might gain, and live - or lose and die - until there was found among them, one, differing from the rest - whose pursuits attracted him not - and so he staid by the tents, with the women, and traced strange devices, with a burnt stick, upon a gourd.
Stran 63 - ... rich people, but on the whole people ; so that for a work to be esteemed good, and to be approved of and diffused, it will have to satisfy the demands, not of a few people living in identical and often unnatural conditions, but it will have to satisfy the demands of all those great masses of people who are situated in the natural conditions of laborious life.
Stran 58 - In the beginning, man went forth each day — some to do battle, some to the chase; others again to dig and to delve in the field — all that they might gain and live, or lose and die. Until there was found among them one, differing from the rest, whose pursuits attracted him not, and so he stayed by the tents with the women, and traced strange devices with a burnt stick upon a gourd. This man, who took no joy in the ways of his brethren — who cared not for conquest, and fretted in the field —...
Stran 59 - And the artist's occupation was gone, and the manufacturer and the huckster took his place. And now the heroes filled from the jugs and drank from the bowls - with understanding - noting the glare of their new bravery, and taking pride in its worth. And the people - this time - had much to say in the matter and all were satisfied. And Birmingham and Manchester arose in their might - and Art was relegated to the curiosity shop.
Stran 64 - The assertion that art may be good art, and at the same time incomprehensible to a great number of people, is extremely unjust, and its consequences are ruinous to art itself...