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Artist and Public
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Title: Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects
Author: Kenyon Cox
Release Date: September 5, 2005 [EBook #16655]
Language: English
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ARTIST AND PUBLIC
AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART SUBJECTS
BY KENYON COX
[Illustration: From a photograph by Braun, Clement & Co. Plate 1.--Millet. "The Goose Girl." In the collection of Mme. Saulnier, Bordeaux.]
ARTIST AND PUBLIC
AND OTHER ESSAYS ON ART SUBJECTS
BY KENYON COX
_WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS_
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS NEW YORK MCMXIV
_Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons Published September, 1914_
TO
J.D.C.
IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF UNFAILING KINDNESS THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED
PREFACE
In "The Classic Point of View," published three years ago, I endeavored to give a clear and definitive statement of the principles on which all my criticism of art is based. The papers here gathered together, whether earlier or later than that volume, may be considered as the more detailed application of those principles to particular artists, to whole sc