What is Art?
What is Art?
The book What is Art? was written by author Here you can read free online of What is Art? book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is What is Art? a good or bad book?
Where can I read What is Art? for free?
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read What is Art? Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book What is Art?
In our eReader you can find the full English version of the book. Read What is Art? Online - link to read the book on full screen. Our eReader also allows you to upload and read Pdf, Txt, ePub and fb2 books. In the Mini eReder on the page below you can quickly view all pages of the book - Read Book What is Art?
What reading level is What is Art? book?
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It has its undoubted uses, but when it lays claim to be the standard by which all art should be gauged and judged, it becomes positively harmful. Anyhow, it is not beautiful ; and although it is a true axiom that the useful must in a sense be beautiful, this is only a figure of speech when we are dealing with the sublime and beautiful in their very highest forms, not merely with the less subtile and more apparently utilitarian aspect of the beautiful.
Moreover, there are some highly esteemed Di...gitized by VjOOQIC 104 * REALISM IN ART.
works of art, so-called, of the strongly realistic school, which to my mind cannot even claim the aforesaid distinction, of being in any degree or in any respect useful. For what can be justly advanced in favour of pictures whose whole aim seems to be the representation of vulgarity ? The bald interior of a sponging- house, the hideous custom of throwing rice after a bridal party, the crudeness and utter shoddiness of a modern drawing-room, the thoroughly unpoetical aspect — unpoetical in any high sense of the word — of a race meeting, the hideous grouping of an Indian durbar — these, and such as these, have of course their lowly uses, but they become far more pronouncedly bad than merely useless, when their claims are put forward, notonly to a superlative, but to a pre-eminently superlative, place in art.
What to read after What is Art??
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Stanley Little to read onlineMoreLess
To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
It has its undoubted uses, but when it lays claim to be the standard by which all art should be gauged and judged, it becomes positively harmful. Anyhow, it is not beautiful ; and although it is a true axiom that the useful must in a sense be beautiful, this is only a figure of speech when we are dealing with the sublime and beautiful in their very highest forms, not merely with the less subtile and more apparently utilitarian aspect of the beautiful.
Moreover, there are some highly esteemed Di...gitized by VjOOQIC 104 * REALISM IN ART.
works of art, so-called, of the strongly realistic school, which to my mind cannot even claim the aforesaid distinction, of being in any degree or in any respect useful. For what can be justly advanced in favour of pictures whose whole aim seems to be the representation of vulgarity ? The bald interior of a sponging- house, the hideous custom of throwing rice after a bridal party, the crudeness and utter shoddiness of a modern drawing-room, the thoroughly unpoetical aspect — unpoetical in any high sense of the word — of a race meeting, the hideous grouping of an Indian durbar — these, and such as these, have of course their lowly uses, but they become far more pronouncedly bad than merely useless, when their claims are put forward, notonly to a superlative, but to a pre-eminently superlative, place in art.
What to read after What is Art??
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by James Stanley Little to read onlineMoreLess
Write Review:
Guest
Read Also
9 / 10
10 / 10
8 / 10
User Reviews: