DOI issue:
No. 182 (January 1925)
DOI article:[Studio-talk]
DOI article:Reviews
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.21402#0065
REVIEWS
We reproduce opposite Mr. Frank
Brangwyn's etching ; The Storm, No. 2, to
which Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman made
allusion as an interesting example of the
artist's own printing in the first of The
Studio series, " Modern Masters of Etch-
ing." The second number in this series,
on James McBey, is now available, and the
third, on the great Swedish etcher, Anders
Zorn, will appear next month. 0 0
REVIEWS
The Pleasures of Architecture. By C.
and A. Williams-Ellis, Illus. 105. 6d.
net. (Jonathan Cape.) This is a very
sprightly book, and its free and easy style
is well calculated to advance a popular
interest in domestic architecture and a
demand for its more rational treatment.
The " new spirit" is possibly a little
crude as yet and needs maturing ; but it
bubbles briskly enough and promises
much for the future. In painting, poetry,
music, decoration and costume Victorian-
ism has already been rudely shredded, and
it is quite time that architecture should be
added to the list. The authors make a
thoroughly enjoyable book out of their
vivid criticism. 0000
A Mixture. Drawings by H. M. Bate-
man. 10s. 6d. (Methuen.) Had these
drawings been unaccompanied by any
titles or letterpress, we should have had
less difficulty in finding Mr. Bateman a
seat among the varied company of modern
artists whose works it is our privilege to
pass under review. Not a few of these—
it would be unfair to mention any names—
allow themselves quite as much liberty in
emphasising absurdities of feature, gesture
or pose which are as often as not the key
to the realisation of character; but Mr.
Bateman apparently means that we should
laugh, which is a very different thing. In
time to come such a collection as this might
have passed, without their titles, for illus-
trations of contemporary novels or volumes
of occasional verse. If Mr. Bateman will
accept a word of advice, let him give us an
illustrated edition of some serious work—
for instance, Bradshaw's Railway Guide
for the centenary next year. 0 0
Albert Diirer : His Life and Work. A
Lecture by T. D. Barlow. With 20
Illus. (Print Collectors' Club, Publica-
tion No. 3.) An ideal monograph which,
like a well-planned house, contains much
more than would appear possible from its
modest though pleasing exterior, leav-
ing the reader with the impression that
he knows all there is any need to know
about Diirer. It contains a chronological
list of engravings and sixteen excellent
reproductions from the finest impres-
sions. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Landscape Painting : Vol. II: From
Constable to the Present Day. By C.
Lewis Hind. (Chapman & Hall.) 25s.
net. Mr. Hind writes very pleasantly of
art and contrives to give us a sense of the
humanity behind it which so many art
critics petrify into terms of " movements."
He completes his comprehensive survey
of landscape with an original study of
modern times, a feature of this originality
being the serious discussion of modern
American painting which Europeans are
too much inclined to neglect. Though
we cannot always agree with him in the
importance of the more " advanced"
modern landscape, he is always stimulating,
and is saved from the extreme by the
generality of his interests. 0 0
Two more beautiful books have been
issued by The Golden Cockerel Press,—
Songs and Poems by Henry Carey (famous
for "Sally in our Alley,") 185. 6d., and
Where I lived and What I lived for, by the
author of "Walden,"H. D. Thoreau. 8s.6d.
Delightfully set up, on fine paper, with
woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, which take
their rightful place as pleasing accessories
to the type, these should become collectors'
books, from their combination of good
literary quality and material excellence. 0
Miss Marjory Whittington, whose water-
colour of a house at Middelburg, Holland,
we reproduced in colours in our October
issue, wishes to express her regret that she
was in error as to the ownership of the
house. The real owners are the Vereen-
iging " Hendrik de Keyser," of Amster-
dam, who purchase and preserve buildings
of historic or artistic interest in Holland.
We regret that in our November issue
the etching On the Way to Market was
given as by A. J. Alesa. This artist's name
is A. J. Alex. 0 0 0 a 0
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We reproduce opposite Mr. Frank
Brangwyn's etching ; The Storm, No. 2, to
which Mr. Malcolm C. Salaman made
allusion as an interesting example of the
artist's own printing in the first of The
Studio series, " Modern Masters of Etch-
ing." The second number in this series,
on James McBey, is now available, and the
third, on the great Swedish etcher, Anders
Zorn, will appear next month. 0 0
REVIEWS
The Pleasures of Architecture. By C.
and A. Williams-Ellis, Illus. 105. 6d.
net. (Jonathan Cape.) This is a very
sprightly book, and its free and easy style
is well calculated to advance a popular
interest in domestic architecture and a
demand for its more rational treatment.
The " new spirit" is possibly a little
crude as yet and needs maturing ; but it
bubbles briskly enough and promises
much for the future. In painting, poetry,
music, decoration and costume Victorian-
ism has already been rudely shredded, and
it is quite time that architecture should be
added to the list. The authors make a
thoroughly enjoyable book out of their
vivid criticism. 0000
A Mixture. Drawings by H. M. Bate-
man. 10s. 6d. (Methuen.) Had these
drawings been unaccompanied by any
titles or letterpress, we should have had
less difficulty in finding Mr. Bateman a
seat among the varied company of modern
artists whose works it is our privilege to
pass under review. Not a few of these—
it would be unfair to mention any names—
allow themselves quite as much liberty in
emphasising absurdities of feature, gesture
or pose which are as often as not the key
to the realisation of character; but Mr.
Bateman apparently means that we should
laugh, which is a very different thing. In
time to come such a collection as this might
have passed, without their titles, for illus-
trations of contemporary novels or volumes
of occasional verse. If Mr. Bateman will
accept a word of advice, let him give us an
illustrated edition of some serious work—
for instance, Bradshaw's Railway Guide
for the centenary next year. 0 0
Albert Diirer : His Life and Work. A
Lecture by T. D. Barlow. With 20
Illus. (Print Collectors' Club, Publica-
tion No. 3.) An ideal monograph which,
like a well-planned house, contains much
more than would appear possible from its
modest though pleasing exterior, leav-
ing the reader with the impression that
he knows all there is any need to know
about Diirer. It contains a chronological
list of engravings and sixteen excellent
reproductions from the finest impres-
sions. 0 0 0 0 0 0
Landscape Painting : Vol. II: From
Constable to the Present Day. By C.
Lewis Hind. (Chapman & Hall.) 25s.
net. Mr. Hind writes very pleasantly of
art and contrives to give us a sense of the
humanity behind it which so many art
critics petrify into terms of " movements."
He completes his comprehensive survey
of landscape with an original study of
modern times, a feature of this originality
being the serious discussion of modern
American painting which Europeans are
too much inclined to neglect. Though
we cannot always agree with him in the
importance of the more " advanced"
modern landscape, he is always stimulating,
and is saved from the extreme by the
generality of his interests. 0 0
Two more beautiful books have been
issued by The Golden Cockerel Press,—
Songs and Poems by Henry Carey (famous
for "Sally in our Alley,") 185. 6d., and
Where I lived and What I lived for, by the
author of "Walden,"H. D. Thoreau. 8s.6d.
Delightfully set up, on fine paper, with
woodcuts by Robert Gibbings, which take
their rightful place as pleasing accessories
to the type, these should become collectors'
books, from their combination of good
literary quality and material excellence. 0
Miss Marjory Whittington, whose water-
colour of a house at Middelburg, Holland,
we reproduced in colours in our October
issue, wishes to express her regret that she
was in error as to the ownership of the
house. The real owners are the Vereen-
iging " Hendrik de Keyser," of Amster-
dam, who purchase and preserve buildings
of historic or artistic interest in Holland.
We regret that in our November issue
the etching On the Way to Market was
given as by A. J. Alesa. This artist's name
is A. J. Alex. 0 0 0 a 0
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