This book contains a selection from my writings on Art extending over a period of twenty years. Some essays have never before been published in England; and I have also added a good deal of new matter and made slight corrections throughout. In the laborious work of hunting up lost and forgotten publications, and in the work of selection, revision, and arrangement I owe everything to Mr. R. R. Tatlock’s devoted and patient labour.
DEDICATED TO MY SISTER MARGERY WITHOUT WHOSE GENTLE BUT PERSISTENT PRESSURE THIS BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ART AND LIFE
AN ESSAY IN ÆSTHETICS
THE OTTOMAN AND THE WHAT NOT
THE ARTIST’S VISION
ART AND SOCIALISM
ART AND SCIENCE
THE ART OF THE BUSHMEN
NEGRO SCULPTURE
ANCIENT AMERICAN ART
THE MUNICH EXHIBITION OF MOHAMMEDAN ART
GIOTTO - The Church of S. Francesco at Assisi
THE ART OF FLORENCE
THE JACQUEMART-ANDRÉ COLLECTION
DÜRER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
EL GRECO
THREE PICTURES IN TEMPERA BY WILLIAM BLAKE
CLAUDE
AUBREY BEARDSLEY’S DRAWINGS
THE FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
DRAWINGS AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB
PAUL CÉZANNE
RENOIR
A POSSIBLE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
JEAN MARCHAND
RETROSPECT
DEDICATED TO MY SISTER MARGERY WITHOUT WHOSE GENTLE BUT PERSISTENT PRESSURE THIS BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ART AND LIFE
AN ESSAY IN ÆSTHETICS
THE OTTOMAN AND THE WHAT NOT
THE ARTIST’S VISION
ART AND SOCIALISM
ART AND SCIENCE
THE ART OF THE BUSHMEN
NEGRO SCULPTURE
ANCIENT AMERICAN ART
THE MUNICH EXHIBITION OF MOHAMMEDAN ART
GIOTTO - The Church of S. Francesco at Assisi
THE ART OF FLORENCE
THE JACQUEMART-ANDRÉ COLLECTION
DÜRER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES
EL GRECO
THREE PICTURES IN TEMPERA BY WILLIAM BLAKE
CLAUDE
AUBREY BEARDSLEY’S DRAWINGS
THE FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS
DRAWINGS AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB
PAUL CÉZANNE
RENOIR
A POSSIBLE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE
JEAN MARCHAND
RETROSPECT