DOI Heft:
No. 195 (June, 1909)
DOI Artikel:Studio-talk
DOI Artikel:Reviews and notices
DOI Seite / Zitierlink: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.20967#0098
Reviews and Notices
PORTRAIT OF SIGNORA ASSIA SPIRO
BY CARL MAX REBEL
surprising on account of its genuine and sym-
pathetic mirroring of life. J. J.
(Owing to the many other demands on our space
this month voe are compelled to hold over our Art
School Notes*—Editor.J
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
The Etched and Engraved Work oj Frank
Short, A.R.A., R.E. By Edward F. Strange.
(London : George Allen & Sons.) J>i nr. net.—
To publish in volume form a Catalogue Raisonne
of the works of a living artist is to honour him
indeed, especially when he has deserved this
tribute exclusively by his mastery over the art of
expression on the copperplate. Mr. Short has long
been known for an “approved good master” of
the etcher’s art and the mezzotinter’s, while indeed
no process of copperplate engraving has eluded
his intimate knowledge and his triumphant practice.
Did he not achieve success with drawings of
Turner’s which Ruskin declared could not be
done by him or any other ? Moreover, Mr. Short
has shown that the process of mezzotint offers new
76
and exquisite possibilities to the artist who knows
how to handle it as an interpreter of delicate pic-
torial vision, while all the natural magic of the
simple line is at the command of his expressive
etching point. So Mr. Short’s plates have become
prized by the artistic collector, and there was a
decided need for this invaluable book, the compiling
of which must have been a labour of love for Mr.
Strange.
The Letters of John Ruskin. 1827—89. 2 vols.
Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.
(London : George Allen.)—Wonderfully written,
the letters of John Ruskin are yet, so to speak, but
foam-drift of his prose. A reputation might rest
on them, but his reputation is such as to be
unaffected by their addition. Their unfailing
eagerness of thought and the originality in them
cannot fail to stimulate the reader. Intense
responsiveness to art gave his utterances con-
cerning it an authoritativeness which no mere
theorising can ever sweep aside. His mistakes
and those of his disciples resulted from the con-
fusion of issues, from confounding experiences of
aesthetic feeling with those of reason and deducing,
PORTRAIT OF SIGNORA ASSIA SPIRO
BY CARL MAX REBEL
surprising on account of its genuine and sym-
pathetic mirroring of life. J. J.
(Owing to the many other demands on our space
this month voe are compelled to hold over our Art
School Notes*—Editor.J
REVIEWS AND NOTICES.
The Etched and Engraved Work oj Frank
Short, A.R.A., R.E. By Edward F. Strange.
(London : George Allen & Sons.) J>i nr. net.—
To publish in volume form a Catalogue Raisonne
of the works of a living artist is to honour him
indeed, especially when he has deserved this
tribute exclusively by his mastery over the art of
expression on the copperplate. Mr. Short has long
been known for an “approved good master” of
the etcher’s art and the mezzotinter’s, while indeed
no process of copperplate engraving has eluded
his intimate knowledge and his triumphant practice.
Did he not achieve success with drawings of
Turner’s which Ruskin declared could not be
done by him or any other ? Moreover, Mr. Short
has shown that the process of mezzotint offers new
76
and exquisite possibilities to the artist who knows
how to handle it as an interpreter of delicate pic-
torial vision, while all the natural magic of the
simple line is at the command of his expressive
etching point. So Mr. Short’s plates have become
prized by the artistic collector, and there was a
decided need for this invaluable book, the compiling
of which must have been a labour of love for Mr.
Strange.
The Letters of John Ruskin. 1827—89. 2 vols.
Edited by E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn.
(London : George Allen.)—Wonderfully written,
the letters of John Ruskin are yet, so to speak, but
foam-drift of his prose. A reputation might rest
on them, but his reputation is such as to be
unaffected by their addition. Their unfailing
eagerness of thought and the originality in them
cannot fail to stimulate the reader. Intense
responsiveness to art gave his utterances con-
cerning it an authoritativeness which no mere
theorising can ever sweep aside. His mistakes
and those of his disciples resulted from the con-
fusion of issues, from confounding experiences of
aesthetic feeling with those of reason and deducing,