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History of Art: Ancient Art. E-book. Formato PDF Elie Faure - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
For a comparison of the older and the newer views of art history, the reader can scarcely be referred to anything clearer than M. Faure's own discussion in the preface to the new edition of this work (page xxxv). His brief reference there to the synoptic tables at the back of each volume may be supplemented by the assurances received from various close students of the special schools and epochs, who agree in vouching for the thoroughness with which this most objective com pilation of names and dates has been made. A refer ence chart is thus constantly before the reader, serving him as a road map does a traveler. The text of most art histories does little more than amplify such tables. The characteristic which distinguishes Elie Faure's History of Art is that it shows the mass of facts func tionally — as the living brain and heart of mankind.
History of Art: Modern Art. E-book. Formato PDF Elie Faure - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
French painting, for a hundred years, has aecom plished the same task. It is still misunderstood, especially by the French. It is one of the miracles of history, comparable to the most surprising. It has produced ten men of genius, more than the great century of Holland, or of Flanders, or of Spain, as many as the great centuries Of Italy. It appeared precisely on the morrow of the spread of revolution over Europe, offering to souls waiting in silence the power of liberation which the march of the republican armies brought to the legitimate appetites of the peoples and to the ideas of their shepherds. It is thanks to that march that it appeared in France and not in some other place, as it was thanks to the struggle of Germany to regain possession of herself from Napoleon, that the great German music, through Richard Wagner, closed its heroic cycle. The explosion Of sentiment, so long deferred, employs color as its expression. Conquered Europe and the Orient, faintly in view, tumultuously enter the sensuous emotion of the French. The Romantic dream and classical realism clash and mingle in France, where Italy and Germany meet for the third time. And it is here that the Renaissance of the south and the Renaissance of the north confront each other to affirm a definitive accord.
Napoleon. E-book. Formato PDF Elie Faure - Forgotten Books, 2017 -
Scarcely anyone has realized that neither his detractors nor his supporters. It is in the name of morality that every one attacks him or defends him: a task which is easier in the former case than in the latter. But morality is narrower than life — and less complex. Unlike life, it does not carry in its tragic texture those sublime contra dictions which by continuous opposition to each other create the substance of a hero and prevent him from being either more or less than a man.