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Title: Artist and Public
And Other Essays On Art Subjects

Author: Kenyon Cox

Release Date: September 5, 2005 [EBook #16655]

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ARTIST AND PUBLIC

AND OTHER
ESSAYS ON ART SUBJECTS

BY
KENYON COX

[Illustration: From a photograph by Braun, Clement & Co.
Plate 1.--Millet. "The Goose Girl."
In the collection of Mme. Saulnier, Bordeaux.]

ARTIST AND PUBLIC

AND OTHER
ESSAYS ON ART SUBJECTS

BY
KENYON COX

_WITH THIRTY-TWO ILLUSTRATIONS_

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS
NEW YORK MCMXIV

_Copyright, 1914, by Charles Scribner's Sons
Published September, 1914_

TO

J.D.C.

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF UNFAILING KINDNESS
THIS BOOK IS INSCRIBED

PREFACE

In "The Classic Point of View," published three years ago, I endeavored
to give a clear and definitive statement of the principles on which all
my criticism of art is based. The papers here gathered together, whether
earlier or later than that volume, may be considered as the more
detailed application of those principles to particular artists, to whole
schools and epochs, even, in one case, to the entire history of the
arts. The essay on Raphael, for instance, is little else than an
illustration of the chapter on "Design"; that on Millet illustrates the
three chapters on "The Subject in Art," on "Design," and on "Drawing";
while "Two Ways of Painting" contrasts, in specific instances, the
classic with the modern point of view.

But there is another thread connecting these essays, for all of them
will be found to have some bearing, more or less direct, upon the
subject of the title essay. "The Illusion of Progress" elaborates a
point more slightly touched upon in "Artist and Public"; the careers of
Raphael and Millet are capital instances of the happy productiveness of
an artist in sympathy with his public or of the difficulties, nobly
conquered in this