Genesis of Art-Form e-bog

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Nor is the taste of any age, however it may stimulate ability or aspiration to produce, above the sway of fashions, good and bad, that, in proportion as they keep truth fettered, render excellence impossible. In order to attain this, the leader in art, as in religion, must break away from them, in fact from all the shackles of conventional traditionalism - one might almost say of historic criticism, broadly beneficial as this'has been in many a direction, - and, searching back of them, must find within himself and in the world about him, those first principles that underlie the nature of both thought and things.