Arrested Development—See [Retardation].
Arriving—See [Ambition].
Art—See [Home Values]; [Picture, Record Price for]; [Realism].
Art, Age in—See [Enduring Art].
Art as a Transformer—See [Beautiful, Influence of the].
ART, DECLINE OF
As long as a family thought itself comfortably furnished with a chest or two, a wardrobe, a box-bedstead, a dozen earthenware pots of different sizes, and three or four vessels of pewter or copper, each one of these objects of utility might become a vehicle for a good deal of artistic thought. The piece would be handed down from mother to daughter, from father to son. At all events, it would be made with that possibility in mind. It was made to last, and in an artistic community it would be the object of a good deal of careful consideration as to its form and as to the little adornments that might be added to it. Now, however, when the poorest family requires two hundred utensils of one and another kind, and finds, moreover, that these utensils are furnished at an incredibly low price by great companies which make them by the thousand and force them upon the customer with favorable opportunities for immediate delivery and gradual payment, the possibility of having the common objects of life beautiful has gone.—Russell Sturgis, “Lubke’s History of Art.”
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ART, DEVOTION TO
The secret of success in any calling is an enthusiasm for our work like that of this artist: