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Excerpt from Lectures on Art Her alone I felt that I was being judged with a justice that this time was not tempered by mercy.xiv introduction TO the fourth edition. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Art: The Philosophy of Art; The Ideal of Art Such a system seems to possess many advan tages. Among others, it tends to emancipate the student of art, as well as the amateur, from met aphysical and visionary theories growing out of false theories and traditional misconceptions he is not misled by an exclusive adherence to partie ular schools, masters, or epochs. It also tends to render criticism less capricious, and therefore less injurious dictating no conventional standard of judgment, it promotes a spirit of charity to wards all works. As there is no attempt to do more than explain art according to natural laws, the reader must judge whether, like all systems assuming to bring order out of confusion, this one fulfills its mission. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on the History and Principles of Painting Here, then, is my apology - The hope of being useful, the desire to assist in preserving pure and unadulterated the practice and the ap plication of painting in our school of art: to preserve it in a rational and needful state of control over that wild luxury of taste, that excess of delight in the ornamental rather than in the true and essential beauties of, art, which has so repeatedly been fatal to its real interest; and which certainly threatens to overwhelm it here. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Classic Point of View: Six Lectures on Painting, Delivered on the Scammon Foundation at the Art Institute of Chicago in the Year 1911 I have therefore welcomed the opportunity afforded by theinvitation from The Art Institute Of Chicago to deliver the Scammon Lectures for 1911 to draw up a definitive credo - a detailed and explicit confession Of artistic faith. The following pages will, accordingly, be found to con tain a statement, as clear as I can make it, Of what one painter believes and hopes and fears with regard to painting; Of what he takes to be the malady Of modern art, and Of where he looks for the remedy for it. It would be little less than miraculous if such a statement Of be lief should contain the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. It must contain errors, and may contain wrongheadedness. At least it is an honest attempt at a contribution to the truth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Delight the Soul of Art: Five Lectures We see a picture; there is something about it that appeals to us for the time being it may even fascinate; yielding to the impression of the mo ment, we class it among the world's great paint ings. But the moment passes, and in a few days, or weeks, or months the picture - like the book has outlived its little life of popularity and is for gotten. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Lectures on Art: Delivered Before the University of Oxford, in Hilary Term, 1870 The followin g lectures were the most important piece of my literary work done with unabated power, best motive, and happiest concurrence of circumstance. They were written and delivered while my mother yet lived, and had vividest sympathy in all I was attempting - while also my friends put unbroken trust in me, and the course of study I had followed seemed to fit me for the acceptance of noble tasks and graver responsibilities than those only of a curious traveller, or casual teacher. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from Art and the Formation of Taste: Six LecturesLucy Crane taught in sympathy with the best teach ing Of Ruskin, and more consistently than he. When the student has become acquainted with the best ex amples of art, and with the essentials of its presence.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Early Renaissance: Two Lectures Delivered at the Yale Art School, January 14 and 21 Rimini, which Dante was wont to go when he walked musing on his divine theme; and lifted by the place and its memories, my own thought was for a time freed from earthly objects and raised to something higher; and so 1 esteem it a great privi lege to enter with you, my friends, even a little way into that haunted region of the imagination, that world of art and beauty where the mind leaves its earthly cares behind and grows young again as in the golden prime; for the imagination ever ennobles if permitted to seek lofty and pure objects, recalling images of the mind's best moments, its truest life, its deepest thoughts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.