Euphorion, Vol. 2

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Excerpt from Euphorion, Vol. 2: Being Studies of the Antique and the Medieval in the Renaissance Real and ideal - these are the handy terms, admiring or disapproving, which criticism claps with random facility on to every imaginable school. This artist or group of artists goes in for the real - the upright, noble, trumpery, filthy real, that other artist or group of artists seeks after the ideal the ideal - which may mean sublimity or platitude. We summon every living artist to state whether he is a realist or an idealist, we classify all dead artists as realists or idealists, we treat the matter as if it were one of almost moral importance. Now the fact of the case is that the question of realism and idealism, which we calmly assume as already settled or easy to settle by our own sense of right and wrong, is one of the tangled questions of art-philosophy , and one, more over, which no amount of theory, but only historic fact, can ever set right. For, to begin with, we find realism and idealism coming before us in different -ways and with different meaning and importance. 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.