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By WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT
MODERN PAINTING
ITS TENDENCY AND MEANING
WITH TWENTY-EIGHT FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS
Octavo, 352 Pages. Cloth, $2.50 Net
FOUR IN COLOR.
A COMPLETE and comprehensive history of
modern painting from Turner, Delacroix,
* Courbet and Daumier to date. This book
gives—for the first time in any language—a clear,
compact review of all the important activities of
modern art in an explanatory, critical manner, so
that the reader has an authentic and concise his-
tory of the new painting, which elucidates the
aims, psychology accomplishments and relative
importance of all those art schools which began
with Delacroix and ended only with the war.
“Modern Painting is a solid, sincere and brilliant “George Moore never wrote about any artist as
book; the best of its kind I have thus far read in brilliantly as Mr. Wright discourses on the style
English.” —James Huneker. and genius of Cezanne. And the same synthetic
“ Mr. Wright turns the white light of a clear and lucid —William StanleyBraithwaitein the “BostonTranscript”
intellect upon the complicated problems of contem- . .
porary artistic endeavor. Modern Painting is not Thls “ the firfl book “ a“>' language which co-ordi-
merely the best current work upon the genesis and nates the ,mPulse toward rVthmic organization and
development of the modern movement; it is a vindi- synthetic interpretation of nature’s manifestations. It
—Dr. Christian Brinton in “The International Studio”
cation of the meta-physical method as applied to
aesthetic interpretation. It satisfies the intellect, and
at the same time is not devoid of the requisite sen-
suous charm of statement.”
formulates a system of aesthetic philosophy applied to
the art of painting. A standard of criticism has been
set, and this standard reposes on the most durable
foundation, the animating purpose of all great creative
expression. Andre Tridon in “The Forum”
Andre Tridon in “The Forum”
JOHN LANE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
MODERN PAINTING
ITS TENDENCY AND MEANING
WITH TWENTY-EIGHT FULL-PAGE REPRODUCTIONS
Octavo, 352 Pages. Cloth, $2.50 Net
FOUR IN COLOR.
A COMPLETE and comprehensive history of
modern painting from Turner, Delacroix,
* Courbet and Daumier to date. This book
gives—for the first time in any language—a clear,
compact review of all the important activities of
modern art in an explanatory, critical manner, so
that the reader has an authentic and concise his-
tory of the new painting, which elucidates the
aims, psychology accomplishments and relative
importance of all those art schools which began
with Delacroix and ended only with the war.
“Modern Painting is a solid, sincere and brilliant “George Moore never wrote about any artist as
book; the best of its kind I have thus far read in brilliantly as Mr. Wright discourses on the style
English.” —James Huneker. and genius of Cezanne. And the same synthetic
“ Mr. Wright turns the white light of a clear and lucid —William StanleyBraithwaitein the “BostonTranscript”
intellect upon the complicated problems of contem- . .
porary artistic endeavor. Modern Painting is not Thls “ the firfl book “ a“>' language which co-ordi-
merely the best current work upon the genesis and nates the ,mPulse toward rVthmic organization and
development of the modern movement; it is a vindi- synthetic interpretation of nature’s manifestations. It
—Dr. Christian Brinton in “The International Studio”
cation of the meta-physical method as applied to
aesthetic interpretation. It satisfies the intellect, and
at the same time is not devoid of the requisite sen-
suous charm of statement.”
formulates a system of aesthetic philosophy applied to
the art of painting. A standard of criticism has been
set, and this standard reposes on the most durable
foundation, the animating purpose of all great creative
expression. Andre Tridon in “The Forum”
Andre Tridon in “The Forum”
JOHN LANE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK
