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Title: Adventures in the Arts
Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets

Author: Marsden Hartley

Release Date: March 28, 2007 [EBook #20921]

Language: English

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ADVENTURES

IN THE ARTS

INFORMAL

CHAPTERS

ON PAINTERS

VAUDEVILLE

AND POETS

BY

MARSDEN HARTLEY

BONI AND LIVERIGHT

Publishers New York

COPYRIGHT, 1921, BY

BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

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PREFATORY NOTE

The papers in this book are not intended in any way to be professional
treatises. They must be viewed in the light of entertaining
conversations. Their possible value lies in their directness of
impulse, and not in weight of argument. I could not wish to go into
the qualities of art more deeply. A reaction, to be pleasant, must be
simple. This is the apology I have to offer: Reactions, then, through
direct impulse, and not essays by means of stiffened analysis.

MARSDEN HARTLEY.

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Some of the papers included in this book have appeared in
_Art and Archeology_, _The Seven Arts_, _The Dial_, _The
Nation_, _The New Republic_, and _The Touchstone_. Thanks
are due to the editors of these periodicals for permission
to reprint.

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TO

ALFRED STIEGLITZ

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