 Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind...  Inventing Australia: Images and Identity, 1688-1980by Richard White - 1981 - 216 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Gerard Baldwin Brown - Art - 1891 - 354 pages
...sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour. . . . Art . . . should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like.' — J. M'Neill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Mahing Enemies, London, MDCCCXC, p. 127. 2 Sensation... | |
 | George Lansing Raymond - Aesthetics - 1894 - 356 pages
...subject-matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of color " ; and that "art ... should . . . appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like." Finally, we seem justified in including among these writers attributing beauty to form, those... | |
 | John Rummell, Emma Medora Berlin - Painters - 1901 - 132 pages
...have remained insensible to the charm of its exquisite beauties. Mr. Whistler himself has said : " Art should be independent of all claptrap — should...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it, and that is why I insist on calling my works ' arrangements... | |
 | Thomas Robert Way, George Ravenscroft Dennis - Artists - 1903 - 272 pages
...and the rest wrote music — simply music ; symphony in this key, concerto or sonata in that. . . . Art should be independent of all claptrap — should...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works ' arrangements... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - Painting - 1920 - 240 pages
...poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with the harmony of sound or of color. Art should stand alone and appeal to the artistic sense...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like." Thus Mr. Whistler ; and again there is a measure of pungent pertinence in the remark. Painting... | |
 | John Charles Van Dyke - Painting - 1903 - 246 pages
...poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with the harmony of sonnd or of color. Art should stand alone and appeal to the artistic sense...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like." Thus Mr. Whistler ; and again there is a measure of pungent pertinence in the remark. Painting... | |
 | 1903 - 772 pages
...poetry of sight, and the subject-matter has nothing to do with the harmony of sound or of color. Art should stand alone and appeal to the artistic sense...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like." Thus Mr. Whistler; and again there is a measure of pungent pertinence in the remark. Painting... | |
 | Art - 1904 - 680 pages
...interesting from their asso-ciations,—as, for instance. 'Yankee Doodle' or 'Partant pour la Syrie.' "Art should be independent of all clap-trap, should...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'... | |
 | James McNeill Whistler - Aesthetics - 1904 - 370 pages
...interesting from their associations, as, for instance, " Yankee Doodle," or " Partant pour la Syrie." Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it, and that is why I insist on calling my works " arrangements... | |
 | N. D'Anvers - 1904 - 108 pages
...subject matter has nothing to do with harmony of sound or of colour. . . . Art should be independent pf all claptrap, should stand alone and appeal to the...to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it, and that is why I insist on calling my works arrangements... | |
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