THE NEW ART LIBRARY
Edited by M. H. SPIELMANN, F.S.A.
For seventeen years Editor of “The Magazine of Art”
And P. G. KONODY
Formerly Editor of “The Artist”
Author of “The Brothers Van Eyck,” &c.
THE volumes in this series are primarily intended for the use of Art Students and Teachers. The instruction given is of the most thorough kind, and is based on long practical experience and intimate knowledge: the names of the authors will be a sufficient guarantee for the high excellence of their work. The greatest care is being bestowed on the illustrations, which are very numerous and in a remarkable degree explanatory of the text.
But there is another class to whom these volumes may prove of high interest, the lovers of art, who, though they produce nothing themselves, are not content with an unintelligent enjoyment of artistic creations. No one can be said to understand them who is ignorant of the principles on which they are executed. The special enjoyment which an artist finds in a work of art may be shared by the art-lover if he will take the pains to examine it in the same way as the professional artist, and thus gain some understanding of the purely technical means of expression employed. The cultivation of a correct taste is thus assured—the knowledge not only of what to like, but why to like it. Appreciation is thus founded on reason.
The prices of the volumes will be lower than those of any similar publications on the English market. The intention has been to meet the requirements of students and of the Art Schools throughout the country, who will at length be able to procure trustworthy and authoritative instruction books at a modest expenditure.
Vol.1. By SOLOMON J. SOLOMON, R. A.
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