Download or read book Essays on Art Classic Reprint written by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Art The first eight pieces are from Goethe's contributions to the Propylaeum, a periodical paper, devoted to art. The Introduction to the Propylaeum may serve as a general intro duction to our author's works on this subject and will give an idea of the earnestness of his views, and the strictness of his requirements, where Art was in question. 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.
Download or read book Old Masters and New written by Kenyon Cox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Old Masters and New: Essays in Art Criticism The 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 Renaissance, un doubtedly owes its existence, in part, to unconscious memory of an essay of Pater's which I had read some years before. The traces of its origin could not be removed Without removing its truth, for Pater had said what I wanted to say. I can only leave it with the warning that I claim no originality for it. Indeed I care much less that any of my criticisms should be new than that they should be just, and it is likely enough that many of them will be found to coincide with those of other writers whom I may or may not have read. 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.
Download or read book Essays on Literary Art Classic Reprint written by Hiram Miner Stanley and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-07 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Literary Art The main connecting thought of these Essays is that literary art, and indeed all art, is an organ in the body of human culture and life, and so dependent on all other organs and all on it. This organic view implies that art segregative or egoistic, art for art's sake, is as destructive of real art as the opposite tendency, the altruistic, that is, the making art wholly subservient to some other organ in humanity, like religion or ethics. I believe we must look at human life in all its manifestations, industrial, artistic, scientific, religious, and ethical, as constituting in totality an organism where each factor is no more to serve itself merely, or even some other member, than the eye is for the eye's sake or the hand for the hand's sake. As the eye is from the whole body and for it, and only by a constant interdependence reaches its own best development, so also is art dependent on the whole organism of civilization for its life and growth. 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.
Download or read book Essays in History and Art Classic Reprint written by R. H. Patterson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays in History and Art IN offering these Essays to the public, i have removed from them any passages and allusions that were of an ephemeral nature and also, when I had written several articles on different parts of the same subject, I have recast and fused them into one. In this way three separate articles have been recast and conjoined in the essay on the National Life of China; two, in Our Indian Empire; and two, in India: its Castes and Creeds. I have also recast the middle portion of the essay on Real and Ideal Beauty, incorporat ing passages from minor papers on the same subject; and have inserted two woodcuts, illustrating the principle of harmonic proportion as exemplified in the peerless edifice of the Parthenon of Athens. 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.
Download or read book Essays on Art and Archaeology Classic Reprint written by Charles Thomas Newton and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on Art and Archaeology The memoirs reprinted in the present volume are of various dates, ranging over a period of thirty years. Hence in the original text of some of the earlier memoirs, statements and references occur here and there which. 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.
Download or read book Every Day Art written by Lewis Foreman Day and published by . This book was released on 2015-06-28 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Every-Day Art: Short Essays on the Arts Not Fine Writings on art divide themselves mainly into two kinds - the technical and the readable. Of these the one class appeals necessarily to a limited public, and is seldom calculated to tempt a reader not deeply concerned in the subject. The other has a value chiefly literary, and scarcely appeals to the student of art. It has been my endeavour to keep a middle course, and to find readable expression for matter which is of a more or less technical character. I have tried to present my thoughts in a form as perfect as is within the reach of one whose everyday art is not of a literary nature; but though I have not relied upon the reader's interest in ornament, my words are addressed, in the first place, to those who know, or wish to know, something of it. Some there may be to whom these essays will not be the less interesting from the fact, that they originated in my having something to say about my art, instead of having to say something. 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.
Download or read book Views and Reviews written by William Ernest Henley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-17 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation; Art It is only the few who date from earlier davs. Mme. De Stael, the Eve of Romanticism, was born in 1766, five years before Walter. 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.
Download or read book Artist and Public written by Kenyon Cox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-15 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Artist and Public: And Other Essays on Art Subjects IN 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 one case, to the entire history of the arts. The essay on Raphael, for instance, is little else than an illustration of the chapter on Design that on Millet illustrates the three chapters on The Subject in Art, on Design, and on Draw ing while No Ways of Painting contrasts, in specific instances, the classic with the modern point of view. 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.
Download or read book The Early Renaissance and Other Essays on Art Subjects Classic Reprint written by J. M. Hoppin and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-18 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Early Renaissance, and Other Essays on Art Subjects But this admiration of a master in the theory and criticism Of art has not prevented me from enjoying artistic excellence wherever it may be found, and in periods in which Mr. Ruskin sometimes declines to re cognize it, in Greek as well as Gothic, in Dutch, French and Spanish schools Of painting as well as Italian, and especially to View Greek art as the head source, giving its law to all that comes after. I have, in a word, tried to cultivate a catholic spirit, believing that art dwells in the human soul, and shows itself in an infinite variety Of form, like the types and products Of nature but whatever opinions Mr. Ruskin himself may have arrived at, from some Of which we are forced respectfully to dissent, he has been our best guide to the facts and ideas Of nature. 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.
Download or read book Essays on the Fine Arts Classic Reprint written by William Hazlitt and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on the Fine Arts The present edition of Hazlitt's Essays on the Fine Arts proceeds on the plan of collecting to gether, so far as was found practicable, all the papers written on this subject, and not included in the new collection of Hazlitt's miscellaneous works. A few articles, properly belonging to the series, have been already included in tab/e-f/'em and the Plain is'pea/cer, to which th author origin ally contributed them. 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.
Download or read book Keeping an Eye Open written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extraordinary collection of essays on the great masters of nineteenth- and twentieth-century art—from the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of The Sense of an Ending. “An engaging and empathetic volume.” —The New York Times Book Review As Julian Barnes notes: “Flaubert believed that it was impossible to explain one art form in terms of another, and that great paintings required no words of explanation. Braque thought the ideal state would be reached when we said nothing at all in front of a painting … But it is a rare picture that stuns, or argues, us into silence. And if one does, it is only a short time before we want to explain and understand the very silence into which we have been plunged.” This is the exact dynamic that informs his new book. In his 1989 novel A History of the World in 10½ Chapters, Barnes had a chapter on Géricault’s The Raft of the Medusa, and since then he has written about many great masters of art, including Delacroix, Manet, Fantin-Latour, Cézanne, Degas, Redon, Bonnard, Vuillard, Vallotton, Braque, Magritte, Oldenburg, Lucian Freud and Howard Hodgkin. The seventeen essays gathered here help trace the arc from Romanticism to Realism and into Modernism; they are adroit, insightful and, above all, a true pleasure to read.
Download or read book The Art of Literature written by Arthur Schopenhauer and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Art of Literature: A Series of Essays 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.
Download or read book Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting Classic Reprint written by Charles Bell and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Essays on the Anatomy of Expression in Painting But we are still far from possessing sufficient materials for a theory of the science: and all that I can venture to hope, is that some of my suggestions may prove useful to those who indulge in these pleasing speculations; or be serviceable to artists, who, while they are solicitous to attain the perfection Of mechanical practice, derive satisfaction from studying the principles of their art. 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.
Download or read book Rossetti written by Ford Madox Ford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-31 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Rossetti: A Critical Essay on His Art It is along the lines here indicated rather than definitely laid down that the present writer intends to proceed. It is of course impossible to get at the nature of this thing, charm. In the case of Rossetti, however, one can trace what it was that charmed him in the world. 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.
Download or read book The Lost Art of Conversation written by Horatio S. Krans and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Lost Art of Conversation: Selected Essays IT his volume brings together - and it is Odd they have never been so assembled before - what we may venture to call the best essays in English on conversation. These essays hold that con versation is one Of the chief pleasures Of civi lized life, and that, if carefully cultivated, it may become a potent factor in the spread Of culture and intelligence, as it was in its great periods, in the Athens Of Pericles, in the Italy Of the renaissance, in the salons Of seventeenth and eighteenth-century France, and in eighteenth century England. 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.
Download or read book The Study and Criticism of Italian Art Classic Reprint written by Bernhard Berenson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Study and Criticism of Italian Art OF the six essays composing this volume, five are concerned with questions of Venetian Painting in the Fifteenth Century. They have been selected out Of a number waiting to appear in book form because they treat of problems or elaborate points for which there was no room in another book, pub lished at the same time under the title of Venetian Painting in the United States: the Fifteenth Cen turyf' 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.
Download or read book The Technique of Oil Paintings and Other Essays Classic Reprint written by Hamilton Easter Field and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-07-21 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Technique of Oil Paintings, and Other Essays But, with the advent of the Impressionists, many barriers were thrown down until, to-day, our hori zon has broadened almost infinitely. Some of us have come to understand, as no one had ever understood before, not only the work of our own spiritual ancestors in all the stages of its develop ment, but also the art of alien peoples. All of the great works of Greek art which we now know have been discovered for our Western civilization since the Renaissance. The creations of primitive times are also coming to light, each year bringing some new and vital f orm of art to enrich our inheritance. Barbaric races, in exchange for a f ew beads, are letting us have their priceless heir looms, which should have the power to give us renewed youth and energy. Surely we are not all so jaded but that we shall find inspiration from these riches, just as the artists of the Renaissance were quickened by the discovery of a f ew Hellenic originals. 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.
