The Portfolio: An Artistic Periodical book by Philip Gilbert Hamerton : Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Some tanning wear and marking due to age. Year 1890. Hardcover. English. See images for condition.

Format: Hardcover

Author: Philip Gilbert Hamerton

ISBN:

Condition: Used - Good


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About the book >.>.> Another scheme of mine was to revive the defunct Fine Arts Quarterly Review, but this did not look very hopeful, as the price of each number was high, and we knew that the circulation of that periodical had been limited. Amongst possible titles, I hit upon the PORTFOLIO, which is practically very convenient, being a single word, and suggesting the idea of drawings and engravings, except to the mind of a politician. Mr. Seeley adopted this, and then he sent me sizes of paper to choose from, one larger than the present size, and this one, which I thought the happiest of all possible shapes and dimensions for an illustrated fine art periodical. It permits us to give a print of some importance with a fair margin, and yet it is not cumbersome. It occupies the happy mean between Art' and the 'Gazette des Beaux Arts. In our recent changes, whatever else might be amended, we found it impossible to improve the size. It was not a part of our scheme to take up any militant position in art criticism. We had no particular doctrine to advocate; we did not ourselves belong to any artistic sect, and were not disposed to permit our periodical to become the organ of any clique or party. A certain serenity, like that which pervades a great national gallery in which the productions of many schools hang almost side by side without hostility, each charming or affecting us by its own qualities, appeared to us the most desirable temper in a periodical that would often be bound and kept on the shelves of libraries. The trenchant style of art criticism may sometimes have a temporary efficacy against a passing aberration of taste, but its right place is in the daily or weekly newspaper. To enshrine it permanently in handsome type on fine paper is to go beyond the passing need. (OS)