This book contains a selection from my writings on Art extending over a period of twenty years. Some essays have never before been published in England; and I have also added a good deal of new matter and made slight corrections throughout. In the laborious work of hunting up lost and forgotten publications, and in the work of selection, revision, and arrangement I owe everything to Mr. R. R. Tatlock’s devoted and patient labour.

DEDICATED TO MY SISTER MARGERY WITHOUT WHOSE GENTLE BUT PERSISTENT PRESSURE THIS BOOK WOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN MADE


Table of Contents



PREFACE

ART AND LIFE

AN ESSAY IN ÆSTHETICS

THE OTTOMAN AND THE WHAT NOT

THE ARTIST’S VISION

ART AND SOCIALISM

ART AND SCIENCE

THE ART OF THE BUSHMEN

NEGRO SCULPTURE

ANCIENT AMERICAN ART

THE MUNICH EXHIBITION OF MOHAMMEDAN ART

GIOTTO - The Church of S. Francesco at Assisi

THE ART OF FLORENCE

THE JACQUEMART-ANDRÉ COLLECTION

DÜRER AND HIS CONTEMPORARIES

EL GRECO

THREE PICTURES IN TEMPERA BY WILLIAM BLAKE

CLAUDE

AUBREY BEARDSLEY’S DRAWINGS

THE FRENCH POST-IMPRESSIONISTS

DRAWINGS AT THE BURLINGTON FINE ARTS CLUB

PAUL CÉZANNE

RENOIR

A POSSIBLE DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE

JEAN MARCHAND

RETROSPECT