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Excerpt from The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting, Delivered on the Scammon Foundation at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Year 1911I have therefore welcomed the opportunity afforded by theinvitation from The Art Institute Of Chicago to deliver the Scammon Lectures for 1911 to draw up a definitive credo - a detailed and explicit confession Of artistic faith. The following pages will, accordingly, be found to con tain a statem...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Painters and Sculptors: A Second Series of Old Masters and NewThe second is that he is apt to be so engrossed in the study of means as to forget the aim of art, that his point of view is too exclusively technical, and that he fails to estimate the final value of a work of art to the world, because he is so busy in finding out how its effect is produced.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Old Masters and New: Essays in Art CriticismThe essays which have been least altered are the earliest ones and the latest, the latter because they express my present mind as I should now express it, the former because it seemed best to leave them their somewhat youthful tone, merely endeavouring that they shall contain no opinions which I do not still hold. The earliest of all in date, that on The' Sculptors of The Early Italian R...

Excerpt from Winslow HomerFor the interpretation I have put upon the fac'ts, and for the attempt at a critical estimate of Homer's art, I alone am responsible. Upon the validity of this estimate my little book must depend for its excuse for being.But while the opinions expressed are my own they must Often coincide with those expressed by other writers. If they did not the book might be orig: inal but would almost certainly be erroneous. I thin...

Excerpt from Artist and Public: And Other Essays on Art SubjectsIN The Classic Point of View, published three years ago, I endeavored to give a clear and definitive statement of the principles on which all my criticism of art is based. The papers here gathered together, whether earlier or later than that volume, may be considered as the more detailed application of those principles to particular artists, to whole schools and epochs, even, in o...

Excerpt from The Fine Arts, Vol. 10The glamour of the unknown is woven about the art ist's studio, and the romance of an imagined Bohemia has tempted many into the paths of art Who had no need and no right to walk there. The glamour fades early, and the atmosphere of Bohemia is not that in which masterpieces are wrought. The studio of the true artist is a workshop where long hours are spent in exhausting labor, a workshop where there are few h...

Excerpt from Concerning Painting: Considerations Theoretical and HistoricalYet there has seldom been a time when those who believe in the seriousness of art as one of the greatest and most permanent expressions of the human spirit have felt more intensely the need of sound thinking on art's problems. That epoch of civilization which we may call, roughly, the nineteenth century began with wars and revolutions. It is now ending with greater wars...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...

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Trieste Publishing has a massive catalogue of classic book titles. Our aim is to provide readers with the highest quality reproductions of fiction and non-fiction literature that has stood the test of time. The many thousands of books in our collection have been sourced from libraries and private collections around the world.The titles that Trieste Publishing has chosen to be part of the collection have been scanned to simulate the original. O...