DOI Heft:
No. 4 (July, 1893)
DOI Artikel:The art magazines of America
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.17188#0164
The Art Magazines of America
America in architecture, silver work, and some few existence of their American predecessor. Its
other departments of the applied arts realises this, editor, Mr. Clarence Cook, is an accomplished and
so it is hardly a forced parallel to say The Art well-informed critic. In its pages admirable re-
Interchange has a certain amount of merely productions of Rossetti's Mary Magdalene and
domestic matter, which is in a sense blank space, St. Cecilia show appreciation for that school which
to balance its distinctly technical instruction in America deems typically English. It is well printed
ornaments. and well written, and leaves the art of the amateur
Of surviving magazines, The Art Amateur is, I to journals that address wider audiences. In its
aim, although not in its form, it might be com-
pared to The Poi-tfolio, relying as it does on
full-page plates and a few important and well-
developed articles, rather than for the more
journalistic style that is concerned with the events
of the passing hour.
The Knight Errant, the full title of which may
be seen on the re-
duced facsimile of its
"""^ 7 cover, is modelled on
the lines of The Cen-
tury Guild Hobby
Horse, and its dis-
cipleship, in externals
at least, is not un-
worthy of its hero.
In early numbers a
very fine reproduc-
tion of Mr. Walter
Crane's La Belle
Dame sans Merci, is
especially worthy of
consideration. An
article on the Kelms-
cott Press, gives many
pages of reproduc-
tions of those famous
books which raise an
envious regret that
the courtesy of copy-
right forbids a similar
liberal quotation by
English journals. Its
matter, which is evi-
dently the Higher
Criticism as it is felt in America, demands
respect; and its articles, however they differ
from our own, are thoughtful and entirely earnest
in their attempt to raise the ideal of art. To
say it is the equivalent of The Germ would be un-
wise. It is not safe to prophesy upon too slender a
oelieve, next in point of age and similar in character, basis, but at least the devotion to a non-commercial
but as it issues an English edition it need not be appreciation, and a distinct intention to enrol the
considered her;. art of the painter among those of pure literature
The Studio is a well-established magazine of New and poetry, are clearly evident. Its printing and
York ; and here in passing ti may be said that our production generally are distinctly opposed to the
own title was chosen by those who knew not the standard adopted by the American press, and with
146
PEN-DRAWING BY FRANK FOWLER,
IN "THE ART STUDENT"
America in architecture, silver work, and some few existence of their American predecessor. Its
other departments of the applied arts realises this, editor, Mr. Clarence Cook, is an accomplished and
so it is hardly a forced parallel to say The Art well-informed critic. In its pages admirable re-
Interchange has a certain amount of merely productions of Rossetti's Mary Magdalene and
domestic matter, which is in a sense blank space, St. Cecilia show appreciation for that school which
to balance its distinctly technical instruction in America deems typically English. It is well printed
ornaments. and well written, and leaves the art of the amateur
Of surviving magazines, The Art Amateur is, I to journals that address wider audiences. In its
aim, although not in its form, it might be com-
pared to The Poi-tfolio, relying as it does on
full-page plates and a few important and well-
developed articles, rather than for the more
journalistic style that is concerned with the events
of the passing hour.
The Knight Errant, the full title of which may
be seen on the re-
duced facsimile of its
"""^ 7 cover, is modelled on
the lines of The Cen-
tury Guild Hobby
Horse, and its dis-
cipleship, in externals
at least, is not un-
worthy of its hero.
In early numbers a
very fine reproduc-
tion of Mr. Walter
Crane's La Belle
Dame sans Merci, is
especially worthy of
consideration. An
article on the Kelms-
cott Press, gives many
pages of reproduc-
tions of those famous
books which raise an
envious regret that
the courtesy of copy-
right forbids a similar
liberal quotation by
English journals. Its
matter, which is evi-
dently the Higher
Criticism as it is felt in America, demands
respect; and its articles, however they differ
from our own, are thoughtful and entirely earnest
in their attempt to raise the ideal of art. To
say it is the equivalent of The Germ would be un-
wise. It is not safe to prophesy upon too slender a
oelieve, next in point of age and similar in character, basis, but at least the devotion to a non-commercial
but as it issues an English edition it need not be appreciation, and a distinct intention to enrol the
considered her;. art of the painter among those of pure literature
The Studio is a well-established magazine of New and poetry, are clearly evident. Its printing and
York ; and here in passing ti may be said that our production generally are distinctly opposed to the
own title was chosen by those who knew not the standard adopted by the American press, and with
146
PEN-DRAWING BY FRANK FOWLER,
IN "THE ART STUDENT"