 | Margaret F. MacDonald - 2001 - 172 Seiten
...very stern course of study [...]'." Whistler's public position was diametrically opposed to Ruskin's: 'Art should be independent of all clap-trap should...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like '.Whistler wrote in May 1878.28 It is possible that reading Ruskin's didactic writings stimulated Whistler... | |
 | Arthur Symons - 2003 - 104 Seiten
...moralist, or an historian, than any poet of his time' ) ; Whistler had been shouting it for many years : 'Art should be independent of all clap-trap - should...devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like.'* Symons's view of the artist was equally orthodox. His idea, which explains his interest in such 'mad'... | |
 | Alexander Sturgis - 2006 - 196 Seiten
...Whistler was reaching towards an entirely aesthetic subjectless art which, as he later articulated, 'should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love patriotism'.6 The importance of his advanced taste in Chinese and Japanese porcelain painting in his... | |
 | 1919 - 550 Seiten
...our painters were unsurpassed. But they seemed to have nothing to say. Whistler's fatal dictum that "Art should be independent of all clap-trap, should stand alone and appeal to the artistic eye or ear without confounding it with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism,... | |
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Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye or ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind... 
