Word: arts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the Boston Art Club tendered Mr. Herkomer a reception Saturday evening...
...Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford, lectured on "Notoriety in Art" last evening, before a large and appreciative audience in Sever 11. Popularity, the speaker said, comes to work of a commonplace character too often. There is a course of indolence which hangs over work in art. The artist is compelled to choose between two audiences, the public or his fellow artists. The public are the makers of the artist's notoriety. The great drawback upon an artist's work is the "art-loafer" who talks himself and the artist into notoriety. Too easy publicity prevents the artist...
Notoriety in Art. Hubert Herkomer, Esq., Slade Professor in Fine Arts at the University of Oxford. Sever...
This evening is delivered a lecture in Sever on "Notoriety in Art" by Mr. Herkomer, professor of fine arts at Oxford. It is gratifying to see that, at a time when so many other interests are forced upon our minds, and when we would be most likely to forget the claims of an art, which does not aim solely at practical ends, attention is called to the department of fine arts in a way at once pleasing and elevating. Mr. Herkomer enjoys a high reputation as a scholarly critic, and is a man of refined tastes. Anything that he will...
...manner we find them represented in the poets;" (b) "To deal with Greek religion honestly you must at once understand that this literal was in the mind of the general people as deeply rooted as ours in the legends of our own sacred book." 8. Why do the fine arts afford the best measure of civilization? 9. How far is technical skill a test of the excellence of a work of art? 10. The influence of Sebastian Bach on instrumental music. 11. The scope of descriptive or "programme" music...