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The eighteen nineties; a review of art and ideas at the close of the nineteenth century, by Holbrook Jackson (1922)

Jackson, Holbrook, 1874-1948 · London, G. Richards · leaf 305

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France. France is the source of all the arts.Let the truth be told. We go there, every one of us, likerag-pickers, with baskets on our backs, to pick up the thingsthat come in our way, and out of unconsidered trifles fortuneshave often been made. We learn in France to appreciatenot only art—we… … o ^ ^ ^ BRITISH I:MPRESSI0NISTS 269 be exalted to praise life. Art is but praise of life, and it isonly through art that we can praise life. Such an attitudeis inseparable from the modern art movement, and it survivesto-day in the development of the decorative arts among thePost Impressionists.…

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