Fifty years of modern painting, Corot to Sargent (1908)
Phythian, John Ernest, 1858- · London, G. Richards · leaf 27
ns. The purpose of this book, it may be said here, is notto pass judgment on the various developments and ten-dencies, the orthodoxies and the heresies, of art during thelast fifty years; nor to hold a brief for any particularschool. Idealism, Realism, Impressionism, all have theirvalue, and… … INTRODUCTORY II is only that one or other of them occupies a larger placehere than there. And no one of them has any right always to claim thefirst place. We who are not artists do not want our pleasureto be limited by what any particular school has to give us;or, if we do so restrict our pleasure,…
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