DOI issue:
Nr. 106 (December, 1905)
DOI article:A glance at the holiday art books
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.26961#0244
A Glance cit the Holiday Art Books
English Board of Education, is particularly thor-
ough on the subject of the architectural basis for
design. The illustrations comprise besides the
photographic views sorne four hundred valuable
line drawings by the author.
Concerned less with abstract principles than with
ancient and modern performances that illustrate
them, is Mr. Russell Sturgis’s "The Interdepend-
ence of the Arts of Design.” (A. C. McClurg &
Co., Chicago, 8vo, $1.75 net). This stimulating,
informal work comprises the series of six lectures
delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1904
under the Scammon foundation. They read as a
ready and interested Speaker talks and are related
throughout to the excellent illustrations with which
the book is bountifully supplied, passing frorn one
example to another freely, and without laboured
effort to drive home the points. Mr. Sturgis finds
that modern art has gained little over earlier art in
its greater tendency to incident, has rather lost in
decorative value, and has done best in Observation.
Mr. Sturgis writes more fully, in somewhat the
same vein, of the art of painting in another excel-
lently illustrated book, “The Appreciation of Pic-
tures.” (The Baker and Taylor Company, N. Y.,
8vo, $1.50 net). This is a companion volume to his
“Appreciation of Sculpture,” “How to Judge
Architecture,” and to Mr. Henry Poore’s “Pic-
torial Composition,” from which latter it is to be
distinguished in taking the critic’s instead of the
painter’s view. Mr. Sturgis presents a chrono-
logical evaluation, or it may be better to say, expla-
nation of the art of painting. He traces the long
line of development from Giotto to the mural
decorators of 1905, writing less to his title in the
abstract than submitting a panoramic appreciation
of masters. Not engaged here in addressing pupils,
he is perhaps more at liberty to criticize the rising
generation, and points the danger to art offered by
periodical illustration in affording too early a tempt-
Copyright, 1905, by The Century Company
THE WATEREALL. BY VAN RUISDAEL FROM “HOW TO STUDY PICTURES” (THE CENTURY COMPANY)
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English Board of Education, is particularly thor-
ough on the subject of the architectural basis for
design. The illustrations comprise besides the
photographic views sorne four hundred valuable
line drawings by the author.
Concerned less with abstract principles than with
ancient and modern performances that illustrate
them, is Mr. Russell Sturgis’s "The Interdepend-
ence of the Arts of Design.” (A. C. McClurg &
Co., Chicago, 8vo, $1.75 net). This stimulating,
informal work comprises the series of six lectures
delivered at the Art Institute of Chicago in 1904
under the Scammon foundation. They read as a
ready and interested Speaker talks and are related
throughout to the excellent illustrations with which
the book is bountifully supplied, passing frorn one
example to another freely, and without laboured
effort to drive home the points. Mr. Sturgis finds
that modern art has gained little over earlier art in
its greater tendency to incident, has rather lost in
decorative value, and has done best in Observation.
Mr. Sturgis writes more fully, in somewhat the
same vein, of the art of painting in another excel-
lently illustrated book, “The Appreciation of Pic-
tures.” (The Baker and Taylor Company, N. Y.,
8vo, $1.50 net). This is a companion volume to his
“Appreciation of Sculpture,” “How to Judge
Architecture,” and to Mr. Henry Poore’s “Pic-
torial Composition,” from which latter it is to be
distinguished in taking the critic’s instead of the
painter’s view. Mr. Sturgis presents a chrono-
logical evaluation, or it may be better to say, expla-
nation of the art of painting. He traces the long
line of development from Giotto to the mural
decorators of 1905, writing less to his title in the
abstract than submitting a panoramic appreciation
of masters. Not engaged here in addressing pupils,
he is perhaps more at liberty to criticize the rising
generation, and points the danger to art offered by
periodical illustration in affording too early a tempt-
Copyright, 1905, by The Century Company
THE WATEREALL. BY VAN RUISDAEL FROM “HOW TO STUDY PICTURES” (THE CENTURY COMPANY)
XXX