The Perspective of Biography
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A 'character' is a nebulous impressionist study. The method of the ' character ' study is, at its best, that of the impression- ist artist who paints Venice in a hazy blur, so that no palace or canal can be identified. The method, however triumphantly the hand of genius may apply it to canvas, is inapplicable to efficient bio- graphy. The method of the efficient biographer is the more modest and mundane method of Canaletto, whose careful observation shows with distinctness and in a true perspec...tive every Venetian brick or pile.
The practice of the art of biography abounds in pitfalls. Although pictorial art and biography have only superficial affinities, the biographer may well digest the counsel which Ruskin authoritatively offered the pictorial artist. Ruskin's words run thus : ' There is only one way of seeing things rightly, and that is, seeing the whole of them, without any choice or more intense perception of one point than another, owing to our special idiosyncrasies.' It is the biographer's indulgence in the partial view, the giving an a3 10 THE PERSPECTIVE OF BIOGRAPHY unchecked rein to his idiosyncrasies, which accounts for most of the wreckage in the biographic ocean.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
A 'character' is a nebulous impressionist study. The method of the ' character ' study is, at its best, that of the impression- ist artist who paints Venice in a hazy blur, so that no palace or canal can be identified. The method, however triumphantly the hand of genius may apply it to canvas, is inapplicable to efficient bio- graphy. The method of the efficient biographer is the more modest and mundane method of Canaletto, whose careful observation shows with distinctness and in a true perspec...tive every Venetian brick or pile.
The practice of the art of biography abounds in pitfalls. Although pictorial art and biography have only superficial affinities, the biographer may well digest the counsel which Ruskin authoritatively offered the pictorial artist. Ruskin's words run thus : ' There is only one way of seeing things rightly, and that is, seeing the whole of them, without any choice or more intense perception of one point than another, owing to our special idiosyncrasies.' It is the biographer's indulgence in the partial view, the giving an a3 10 THE PERSPECTIVE OF BIOGRAPHY unchecked rein to his idiosyncrasies, which accounts for most of the wreckage in the biographic ocean.
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You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Lee Sidney Sir to read onlineMoreLess
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