| — | Sat. R. 100: 311. S. 2, ‘05. 860w. |
[*] “The author’s statements and interpretations of facts are clear, vigorous, original, and sufficiently tinctured with philosophy, and he never slides into what Mommsen called the ‘dressing-gown’ style of narrative.”
| + | Spec. 95: 123. Jl. 22, ‘05. 1820w. |
Caffin, Charles Henry. How to study pictures. [**]$2. Century.
Mr. Caffin unfolds the gradual progress of art from its liberation from the shackles of Byzantine traditions down to the impressionist school of Monet. A comparative method of study is employed, contrasting the motives and methods of two artists in each of the twenty-eight chapters, sometimes of the same school, often of different schools. And the author maintains that the first necessity for the proper seeing of a picture is to try and see it thru the eyes of the artist who painted it, that it is an understanding of the individuality of the artist’s experience and feeling that enables one to be an intelligent judge of merit.
| + + | Critic. 47: 474. N. ‘05. 160w. |
[*] “While possessing a simplicity of method which conveys to the average reader a general insight into pictorial methods and motives, the author’s work is characterized by elegance of style, grace of feeling, and elevation of thought; it will do as much good in the direct service of art as any treatise published in recent years.”
| + + | Dial. 39: 311. N. 16, ‘05. 400w. |
[*] “Mr. Caffin’s book was needed and will be found to contain much information not easily obtainable elsewhere.”
| + + | Ind. 59: 1375. D. 14, ‘05. 80w. |