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W. C. Brownell French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

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More than that of any other modern people French art is a national expression. It epitomizes very definitely the national æsthetic judgment and feeling, and if its manifestations are even more varied than are elsewhere to be met with, they share a certain character that is very salient. Of almost any French picture or statue of any modern epoch one's first thought is that it is French. The national quite overshadows the personal quality. In the field of the fine arts, as in nearly every other in which the French genius shows itself, the results are evident of an intellectual co operation which insures the development of a common standard and tends to subordinate idiosyncrasy. The fine arts, as well as every other department of mental activity, reveal the effect of that social instinct which is so much more powerful in France than it is anywhere else, or has ever been elsewhere, except possibly in the case of the Athenian republic. Add to this influence that of the intellectual as distinguished from the sensuous instinct, and one has, I think, the key to this salient characteristic of French art which strikes one so sharply and always as so plainly French. As one walks through the French rooms at the Louvre, through the galleries of the Luxembourg, through the unending rooms of the Salon he is impressed by the splendid competence everywhere displayed, the high standard of culture universally attested, by the overwhelming evidence that France stands at the head of the modern world æsthetically but not less, I think, does one feel the absence of imagination, opportunity, of spirituality, of poetry in a word. The French themselves feel something of this. At the great Exposition of 1889 no pictures were so much admired by them as the English, in which appeared, even to an excessive degree, just the qualities in which French art is lacking, and which less than those of any other school showed traces of the now all but universal influence of French art. The most distinct and durable impression left by any exhibition of French pictures is that the French æsthetic genius is at once admirably artistic and extremely little poetic. [more]

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W. C. Brownell French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture

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William Crary Brownell (1851–1928) was an American journalist and literary critic influenced by Matthew Arnold. After graduating from [more]

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W. G. Archer The Loves Of Krishna In Indian Painting And Poetry

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William Archer (23 September 1856 – 27 December 1924) was a Scottish critic and writer.He was born in [more]

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Luigi Antonio Lanzi The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 2 (of 6)

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Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he [more]

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Luigi Antonio Lanzi The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 1 (of 6)

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Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he [more]

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Luigi Antonio Lanzi The History of Painting in Italy, Vol. 3 (of 6)

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Luigi Lanzi (14 June 1732 – 30 March 1810) was an Italian art historian and archaeologist. When he [more]

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JAMES STEVENSON CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS AND MYTHICAL SAND PAINTING OF THE NAVAJO INDIANS

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James Stevenson is an American illustrator and author of over 100 children's books. His cartoons appear regularly in [more]

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JAMES STEVENSON CEREMONIAL OF HASJELTI DAILJIS AND MYTHICAL SAND PAINTING OF THE NAVAJO INDIANS

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During my visit to the Southwest, in the summer of 1885, it was my good fortune to arrive at the Navajo Reservation a few days before the commencement of a Navajo healing ceremonial. Learning of the preparation for this, I decided to remain and observe the ceremony, which was to continue nine days and nights. The occasion drew to the place some 1,200 Navajos. The scene of the assemblage was an extensive plateau near the margin of Keam's Canyon, Arizona. [more]

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James Stevenson Ceremonial of Hasjelti Dailjis and Mythical Sand Painting of the Navajo Indians

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James Stevenson is an American illustrator and author of over 100 children's books. His cartoons appear regularly in The New Yorker magazine.[1] He usually uses a unique comic book style of illustration that is very recognizable. His books, like What's Under My Bed, have been featured on the Reading Rainbow television series.James Stevenson was born in New York City and educated at Yale University, where he was the feature editor of campus humor magazine The Yale Record. [more]

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Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors

The Painter in Oil

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Project Gutenberg's The Painter in Oil, by Daniel Burleigh Parkhurst This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere [more]

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