Description

Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Pages tanned. Plates bright and vivid. Cover very worn plates are great. Year 1916. Softcover. English. See images for condition.

About the book >.>.> Other works of a character at once artistic and literary have already seen the light here in England as for instance-King Albert’s Book The Book of Belgian Gratitude and the Glory of Belgium-in which Belgian artists are repre- sented either by isolated examples of their work or in the guise of simple collaborators. Belgian Art in Exile differs from these noteworthy publications in the fact that it owes its incep- tion to the artists themselves who voluntarily and of their own initiative made a collection of examples of their work and offered their talent to be sold on behalf of various useful and humanitarian organisations carried on under the highest patronage. At the same time they have aimed at producing a work of charity which shall be characteristic of their country and have exhibited the broadest spirit of eclecticism ignor- ing all distinctions of schools and tendencies in their effort to produce a work of art with the materials at their disposal which of course are to some degree affected by the very unfavour- able conditions. Certainly they would be the first to appreciate how incomplete this almost fortuitous presenta- tion of their works must appear and in spite of the relative interest which it can offer to those who have already some acquaintance. (SP)