The International Studio Volume 59 PDF Download

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ...as you know, always protested against the popular misconception of the artist, and I do not consider that his idea of his own importance in the social scheme is at all exaggerated--therefore I want to see him doing his full share in the regeneration of his country." "But how can a man regenerate his country by painting pictures or carving statues?" protested the Plain Man. "Something much more energetic than that will be demanded of us in the near future when we set about the task of building up our trade again and reorganising our resources." "And do you not think that the help of the artist in this process of reconstruction will be worth having?" enquired the Critic. "Cannot you see what a number of ways there are in which his capacities can be utilised?" "I confess, I cannot," replied the Plain Man. "It seems to me that art, which is after all only one of the ornamental accessories of life, will have to stand aside until all the vital questions of rearrangement are settled." "Oh, good Lord! These dull business men!" cried the Man with the Red Tie. "Will they never learn how even their own affairs should be managed?" "What has art to do with my affairs?" asked the Plain Man. "I have got along all right without it for a great many years." "That is the pity of it," declared the Critic. "You and a lot more like you have got along without it so persistently that a very large part of the trade of this country has drifted abroad and fallen into the hands of our competitors. You have kept art so definitely out of your affairs that it has had to seek an asylum in countries which make the attack on our commerce an essential...