About the Book
A BALLADE OF ART COLLECTORS Oh Lord! We are the covetous. Our neighbours goods afflict us sore.From Frisco to the Bosphorus All sightly stuff, the less the more,We want it in our hoard and store. Nor sacrilege doth us appalȔEgyptian vaultȔfane at CawnporeȔ Collector folk are sinners all. Our envoys plot in partibus. Theyve small regard for chancel door,Or Buddhist bolts contiguous To lustrous jade or gold galoreAdorning idol squat or tallȔ These be strange gods that we adoreȔCollector folk are sinners all. Of Romulus Augustulus The signet ring I proudly wore.Some rummaging in ossibus I most repentantly deplore.My taste has changed; I now explore The sepulchres of SenegalAnd seek the pots of SingaporeȔ Collector folk are sinners all. Lord! Crave my neighbours wife! What for? I much prefer his crystal ballFrom far Cathay. Then, Lord, ignore Collector folk whore sinners all. CAMPBELL COROT The Academy reception was approaching a perspiring and vociferous close when the Antiquary whispered an invitation to the Painter, the Patron, and the Critic. A Scotch woodcock at Dicks weighs heavily, even against the more solid pleasures of the mind, so terminating four conferences on as many tendencies in modern art, and abandoning four hungry souls, four hungry bodies bore down an avenue toward Dicks smoky realm, where they found a quiet corner apart from the crowd. It is a place where one may talk freely or even foolishlyȔone of those rare oases in which an artist, for example, may venture to read a lesson to an avowed patron of art. All the way down the Patron had bored us with his new Corot, which he described at tedious length. Now the Antiquary barely tolerated anything this side of the eighteenth century, the Painter was of Courbets sturdy following, the Critic had been writing for a season that the only hope in art for the rich was to emancipate themselves from the exclusive idolatry of Barbizon. Accordingly the Patrons rhapsodies fell on impatient ears, and when he continued his importunities over the Scotch woodcock and ale, the Painter was impelled to express the sense of the meeting. Speaking of Corot, he began genially, there are certain misapprehensions about him which I am fortunately able to clear up. People imagine, for instance, that he haunted the woods about Ville dAvray. Not at all. He frequented the gin-mills in Cedar Street. We are told he wore a peasants blouse and sabots; on the contrary, he sported a frock-coat and congress gaiters. His long clay pipe has passed into legend, whereas he actually smoked a tilted Pittsburg stogy. We speak of him by the operatic name of Camille; he was prosaically called Campbell. You think he worked out of doors at rosy dawn; he painted habitually in an air-tight attic by lamplight. As the Painter paused for the sensation to sink in, the Antiquary murmured soothingly, Get it off your mind quickly, Old Man, the Critic remarked that the Campbells were surely coming, and the Patron asked with nettled dignity how the Painter knew.... About the Author
Frank Jewett Mather, Jr. (1868-1953) was an American art critic and professor. He was a frequent contributor to New Yorks Evening Post, The Nation, and Burlington Magazine. His books include Art in America, Estimates in Art, and Concerning Beauty. He was a professor at Williams College and Princeton University. The College Art Association honors Mather with an annual award in his name, given to a writer for distinguished art criticism. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Product Details
- ISBN-13: 9781548017385
- Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
- Binding: Paperback
- Language: English
- Returnable: N
- Width: 60 mm
- ISBN-10: 1548017388
- Publisher Date: 12 Jun 2017
- Height: 0 mm
- No of Pages: 156
- Weight: 294.736 gr
8%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹3,088 ₹3,356 6%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹711 ₹756 6%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹1,524 ₹1,614 2%
Quick ViewCollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹2,128 ₹2,171 2%
Quick ViewCollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹2,298 ₹2,345 6%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹1,524 ₹1,614 6%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹1,524 ₹1,614 13%
Quick ViewCollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹2,289 ₹2,631 18%
Quick ViewCollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹1,251 ₹1,526 4%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹651 ₹678 27%
Quick ViewThe CollectorsFrank Jewett Mather
₹1,456 ₹1,995
