Art in Great Britain and Ireland (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Art in Great Britain and Ireland Our insular position hardly requires to be insisted on. To it we owe the nationality which marks our art from the dark ages onward. If there had been no Channel, we should have been a province of France, or France of us, and artistic forms would have radiated from their points of origin with no more than those slight and gradual changes en route by which only the expert can distinguish between one section of a single school and another. Some writers contend that, even with the Channel, we were nothing but a French province, at least in architecture. In a sense, that is partly true, but only so far as all movements become provincial as soon as they leave their initial matrix. Even this acknowledgment should be made, however. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.