| Description |
vii, 619 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliographical footnotes. |
| Contents |
The artist and his public -- The Mona Lisa in the history of taste / George Boas -- Culture and snobbism / Roger Fry -- Artist, be humble and discreet -- Art by committee -- Westward the course of empire -- It will never do in this country! -- The royal academy / Benjamin Robert Haydon -- The modern spirit in art: Some reflections inspired by the recent international exhibition / Wilfred Scawen Blunt and Kenyon Cox -- The Layman's view of an art exhibition / Theodore Roosevelt -- Art and society -- The aging artist -- The enchanting work -- Three reflections on genious / Eugene Delacroix -- The aims of art / William Morris -- Art and society / Kenneth Clark -- On originality in art / Eugene Delacroix -- Art and morality -- The virtuous artist / Benjamin West -- The moral content of art / John Ruskin -- Some remarks on morality in art / R. A. M. Stevenson -- Art and the dread of the instinct / D. H. Lawrence -- The false delicacy of the English public -- Wordsworth confronts cupid and psych / Benjamin Robert Haydon -- Art and reality -- Truth and the stereotype / E. H. Gombrich -- Beauty and modern painting / Jacques Maritain -- The psychoanalyst looks at contemporary art / Franz Alexander -- False sculpture and false architecture / Horatio Greenough -- The classical ideal -- The naked and the nude / Kenneth Clark -- The history of the elgin marbles -- The Greeks were gods / Benjamin Robert Haydon -- Ode on a Grecian Urn / John Keats -- True Classicism / Horatio Greenough -- The medieval synthesis -- Towers and portals -- The virgin of Chartres -- The twelfth-century glass / Henry Brooks Adams -- Art and life / Johan Huizinga -- The nature of gothic / John Ruskin -- The renaissance -- Giotto and the circle -- Giotto and the fly -- The gates of paradise: Ghuberti's baptistry doors -- Uccello's mistress perspective -- Brunelleschi and the egg -- Donatello's Lo Zuccone -- The character of Fra Angelico -- The exploits of Fra Filippo Lippi -- Andrea del Castagno and the "murder" of Domenico Veneziano -- Andrea of the hanged men -- The Ghirlandaio brothers uphold the dignity of painting -- Domenico Ghirlandaio: The insatiable painter -- Raphael's genius astounds and kills -- The painter's grief dominated by his art -- The burning of the Vanities -- Andrea del Sarto as embezzler -- The divine Leonardo -- Verrocchio and Leonardo's angel -- Leonardo and the birds -- The painting of the last supper -- The "Mona Lisa" -- The pride of Leonardo -- The follies of Leonardo -- Michelangelo: The god-given genius -- Michelangelo and Lorenzo the magnificent -- Michelangelo and the statue of snow -- Michelangelo as manufacturer of a fake antique -- Michelangelo's first Pieta -- The battle of Cascina -- Michelangelo and Pope Julius II -- The Sisteine chapel ceiling frescoes -- Some sayings of Michelangelo -- Vasari as critic -- Florence: The city of the arts -- Leonardo Da Vinci -- The school of Giorgione / Walter Pater -- Giotto and the tactile imagination / Bernard Berenson -- Michelangelo and gothic sculpture / Benjamin Robert Haydon -- The Baroque -- Rembrandt / Eugene Fromentin -- The dignity of technique -- His modelling and brushwork / Robert Alan Mowbray Stevenson -- El greco / Roger Fry -- Rubens and the power of painting / Eugene Delacroix -- Neoclassicism and the grand style -- The leading principles of the grand style -- On imitation -- Principles of art and simplicity -- On the nature of genius and the comprehension of the whole -- On the merits and defects of Gainsborough / Sir Joshua Reynolds -- False notions of the grand style -- On Benjamin West / Benjamin Robert Haydon -- Two statements / John Gibson -- Romanticism and realism -- Some comments on Sir Joshua Reynolds' discourses -- A world of imagination and vision -- On true reality / William Blake -- Let the sea be rough and tempestuous / Leonardo Da Vinci -- A declaration of faith / John Constable -- The excellence of every art is its intensity / John Keats -- O smile of the dying! -- Make it simple and daring -- The real man is the savage -- The new is very ancient -- The virtues of spontaneity -- The antique never surprises -- Novelty is in the mind that creates -- The incredible power of the imagination -- Art lives through fictions -- The gracelessness of realism -- The book of creation -- Landscape without line / Eugene Delacroix -- To the editor of L'Opinion nationale -- Variations on Goya / Aldous Huxley -- Honore Daumier / Henry James -- The modern epoch in art / Sir Herbert Read -- The salon des refuses of 1863 / Emile Zola -- Contemporary French painters / Philip Hamerton -- Cezanne's still-lifes / Roger Fry -- A new device for study / Leonardo Da Vinci -- On the spiritual in art / Wassily Kandinsky -- The Cubist painters / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The artistic problem / Clive Bell -- Dadaism / George Grosz -- The American action painters / Harold Rosenberg -- Reflections on the Rothko exhibition / Robert Goldwater -- The last word / Ad Reinhardt |
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Art.
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Art. |
| Added Author |
Thomas, Sidney, 1915-
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