...further and reels off the following he becomes grotesque: 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 emotion entirely foreign to it — as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have...

...further and reels off the following he becomes grotesque: 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 emotion entirely foreign to it — as devotion, pity, love, patriotism and the like. All these have...

...Whistler, whom not even Mencken can accuse of being a moralist Whistler's definition of art was that it should "stand alone and appeal to the artistic sense...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like." "And the like"1 being, 1 dare say, excoriation of Rotarians and Baptists. Finally, let me turn from...

...abstract art by fifty or sixty years. He spoke and wrote daringly and lucidly about the aims of art. Art should "stand alone, and appeal to the artistic...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like" (The Gentle Art, pp. 127 and 128). He differed from most of his contemporaries by insisting that the...

...colour" (The Gentle Art, p. 127). And subsequently: "Art should be independent of clap-trap—should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it; and that is why I insist on calling my works 'arrangements'...

...the product may be co-opted to serve other purposes. Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...foreign to it, as devotion, pity, love, patriotism. . . . Take the picture of my mother, exhibited as ... an "Arrangement in Grey and Black." Now that...

...the "matter" and the "form" of art.) Wrote Whistler: "Art should be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. . . ." Whistler's flair for public exposure in the service of an autonomous art deeply influenced many...

...be independent of all clap-trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense of eye and ear, without confounding this with emotions entirely...as devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. — James Abbott McNeill Whistler, The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, 1890 Peaceful Coexistence of Diversified...

...Let me read you a few of Mr. Whistler's own words: "Art should be independent of all clap -trap — should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...confounding this with emotions entirely foreign to it, [like] devotion, pity, love, patriotism, and the like. All these have no kind of concern with it, and...

...public position was diametrically opposed to Ruskin's: 'Art should be independent of all clap-trap should stand alone, and appeal to the artistic sense...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...