The Relative Claims of Etching and Engraving to Rank as Fine Arts, and to be Represented as Such in the Royal Academy of Arts

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Metchim, 1883 - 26 páginas
 

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Página 5 - The Relative Claims of Etching and Engraving to rank as Fine Arts, and to be represented as such in the Royal Academy of Arts," read at the Society of Arts in May 1883.
Página 15 - ... depending on brain impulse, is personal; and the creative faculty being chiefly engaged in it, invention, sensibility, and the various attributes which make up the sum of genius, belong to it and constitute it an art . Engraving being without personality—except such as may be supposed to be involved in the act of copying or translating the work of another— originality, and all the attributes which attend the exercise of the creative faculty, are absent from it, and constitute it a metier.
Página 18 - It would go to bed at night and get up in the morning with war at its elbow, instead of viewing it academically at a safe remove.
Página 15 - ... perhaps, better commence this article than by a plain statement of the considerations which have prompted me to write it. It is well known that for many years past, influenced by the decline of mechanical engraving, I have advocated the restoration of that more vital form of it which was practiced by the great masters of painting who were their own engravers, and which, in consequence, has come to be known as '' painter - engraving1
Página 26 - BRYAN — A Biographical and Critical Dictionary of Painters and Engravers. . 2 vols.

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