Word: artfulness
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Fogg Art Museum has just acquired by gift a collection of forty-six miniatures, consisting of historiated initials and illuminated borders cut from chorals, psalters...
...Langdon Warner '03 will continue his series of illustrated lectures on "The Development of Chinese Art" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Great Sculptors of Japan." These lectures are open to the public...
...Langdon Warner '03 will continue his series of illustrated lectures on "The Development of Chinese Art" in the large lecture room of the Fogg Art Museum this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock. His subject will be "Literary Art and the White Colonists." These lectures are open to the public...
...should care for his work not solely for the amount it brings in, but as something of itself interesting. If, in the fields of industry and profession, this outlook is needed to make life really worth while, how much greater is the need in the fields of art? All that music, that literature, painting or sculpture live for is the individual contribution to the beauty or significance of the world, which springs from enthusiasm and conviction. To perform this contribution, the artist must not be thinking of how it will be received. That is the death-knell of inspiration...
...college to the artist and to the musician, a desire to understand and to express life, and a firm conviction that what he is doing is worth while, whether it is recognized or not. This is the challenge which must be flung to those who are professionalizing art in this country as our business and even our sport is professionalized. And that lesson the College should teach well...