Author : Russell Sturgis
Release : 2018-01-12
Genre : Art
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The Interdependence of the Arts of Design - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Interdependence of the Arts of Design write by Russell Sturgis. This book was released on 2018-01-12. The Interdependence of the Arts of Design available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Excerpt from The Interdependence of the Arts of Design: A Series of Six Lectures, Delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago Take an extreme instance, -the works of James Whistler, who died a few months ago. It was my business to obtain such analysis of his work as could be had by artists, especially by painters. We have in the United States a number Of painters who write admirably well on matters of painting. Seven or eight names arise at once in the memory of one who is conversant with the whole field, names Of men who are simply excellent critics in this, the most approved and most popular form of the arts of design. And those men, though they feel themselves unable to speak of a brother painter while he is yet alive, - Of him or of his works, will yet consent to write or speak about the works of him who has gone, and who is beyond the reach of injury by any possible jealousy or personal disapproval. But in the case of Whistler there was this insuperable difficulty to be met on the threshold - the difficulty that not one of the painters whom I consulted had seen enough of Whistler's work to dare to Speak of it. His black and-white productions, his etchings, his. 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.