“An extremely interesting monograph, which might well be a model for this kind of book.”
| + + | Sat. R. 102: 713. D. 8, ’06. 150w. |
* Nordau, Max Simon. On art and artists; tr. by W. F. Harvey. **$2. Jacobs.
7–28523.
A series of detached essays thru which may be traced the development of modern art as represented by the following painters and sculptors: Whistler, Frank Brangwyn, Rodin, Puvis de Chavannes, Mounier, Bartholomé, Carriès, Gustave Moreau, Carrière, Zorn, Zuloaga, Bouguereau. Problems of art are illustrated thruout the treatment of the classic school of David, the romantic school, the Barbizon clan, and the realists, to the recent school of symbolism and impressionism.
“There is much that is instructive, much that irritates by its bumptiousness, and not a little that seems tedious, in his book.”
| + − | Ind. 63: 695. S. 19, ’07. 410w. |
“Despite its faults as a purely critical work, the book throughout has one quality which ranks it with the most valuable art criticism, and that is its author’s skill in stripping from his subjects those pretensions to literary motive, which in so many cases obscure the minds of thinking people as to the real issues in discussion of the plastic arts and the nature of the motives which alone are responsible for artistic success,”
| + − | Int. Studio. 32: 83. Jl. ’07. 390w. |