Goupils Paris Salon 1893

Author : Gaston Jollivet
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333737337
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (373 download)

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Download or read book Goupil's Paris Salon 1893 written by Gaston Jollivet and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-24 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Goupil's Paris Salon 1893: One Hundred Plates Photogravures and Etchings and One Water Color Facsimile, With Text in English, Translated by Henry Bacon My readers will not expect me to give them a history of how the juries sat and decided; still less an inquiry into the motives for acceptance or refusals. All this little seething hubbub, not very interesting even to artists, would simply dnust the outside public. All I desire to point out is that the jury this year - like that indeed Of last year - understood that It would be foolish to exhaust the patience of the visitors by displaying too large a number Of works For this we are truly thankful! Two years ago, a professor of statistics amused himself by calculating the number of miles on the map of France which might be covered by the pictures then exhibited at the Champs - Elysees, if they were laid out in a line, end to end. He estimated that they would have paved a way from Paris to Etampes. This year they would, at any rate, end at Versailles. Long live the jury! Yes, indeed, long live the jury I It is not the public alone that benefits by their just and reasonable severity; they also do good service to the daubers who send in their squares of soiled canvas. The famous speech Of M. Poirier: Encourage art and discourage artists, is ridiculous if taken literally; but if for artists you read exhibitors, which, alas, is not always the same thing, the worthy Poirier is perfectly right. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.