Excerpt from History of Art
This book treats the art styles which have most directly inspired or affected our own cultural traditions. For this reason, and not because they are unworthy of serious study, the important arts of the Far East, the South Seas, the North American Indian, and the African Negro have been omitted. The influences these cultures have extended to our art of the Western world are exotic and rare.
By understanding how artistic styles are modified by the environment, one can achieve a better comprehension of past civilizations and perhaps of some patterns in our present culture, most directly synthesized and apprehensible in the visual arts. The study of the history of art, complex as it is, demands little of the student; he has merely to look and learn. Surprisingly enough, once a total view of the history of art is obtained, all the details, the isolated facts, figures, and theories gleaned from a lifetime of exposure to books, music, religion, philosophy, social, political, and economic history, zoology, botany, geology, and anthropology fall into place. The history of art is a painless way to correlate everything one has ever learned. It offers in capsule form a rich diet of knowledge seasoned by understanding, predigested yet palatable, and appealing to the eye.
This book contains no illustrations, but the author has made useful selections of 130 and 260 prints, priced at $2.50 and $5.00 respectively, to accompany the text. These sets of prints (published by The University Prints of Cambridge, Massachusetts) should aid the reader in correlating the summaries of works and trends with acceptable reproductions of art masterpieces.
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