Bardic
Richard Wollheim
- Theory and Philosophy of Art: Style, Artist and Society by Meyer Schapiro
Braziller, 253 pp, £19.95, October 1994, ISBN 0 8076 1356 8
One of the essays included in this volume is entitled ‘Eugène Fromentin as Critic’, and it opens: ‘The Old Masters of Belgium and Holland is the first and perhaps the only book of its kind: a critical study of painting by an accomplished artist who is also a first-rate writer.’ Anyone acquainted with Meyer Schapiro will be amused. For, whether or not this is a correct assessment of Fromentin as a critic (the essay that follows suggests some qualifications), applied to Schapiro himself, these words have the ring of truth, if heavily understated.
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