A series of philosophical essays about the arts by art critic Haldane Macfall.
“The realm of Art is prodigious; next to Life itself the vastest realm of man’s experience. It is universal, immeasurable, limitless – as life itself is universal, immeasurable, limitless. Its sole limitations are the limitations of life – and life is limitless. Individuals die, and individual Art dies; but life goes on and Art goes on. As long as there is conscious life, so long will there be, and must be, Art – for conscious life cannot be without Art, or would go mad.”
Contents:
- Of Life
- Of Art
- Of Craftsmanship
- Of Beauty
- Of the Mighty Acreage of the Garden of the Arts, and of the Vast Significances that dwell therein
- Of Impressionism
- Of the Intellect and the Senses in Art
- Of the Splendour of the Passions
- Of Art for Art’s Sake
- Of the Brain-Thief
- Of Criticism and the Milk of Asses
- Of Decay
- Of the Dealing in Antiquities
- Of the Great Dead
- Of the Academic Mind
- Of Style
- Of the Law
- Liberty the Breath of Art
- Of Authority and the Law-giver
- Of the Receivers of Art
- Of Subject
- Of the Breed of the Conquerors
- Of Splendid Rebels
- Of the Province of the Art of the Drama to Amuse
- Of the Manifold Dangers that Threaten the Art of the Drama
- Of the Puritan in us all
- Of the Power of the Drama
- Of the Hope of Salvation for the Puritan
- Of the Golden God of the Puritan – Thrift
- Of the Theatre