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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. No notes or highlighting. Owners name written in book. Protective film on cover. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Artistic conception and forms of expression depend on time place and the temperament of the artist. It is the historian’s duty to master these elements which separate us from a work of art. In the past writers on music believed it possible to explain a musician’s contribution in terms of the forms he perfected maintaining with some art critics that in artistic value ?there is no difference between a well painted vegetable and a well painted Madonna.? When the pendulum swung in the other direction every- thing was considered from the biographical-psychological angle and anec- dotes and interpretations? served as the medium of evaluation to the exclusion of aesthetic criteria. But for a just appraisal the two methods must be held in constant balance. Every great artist is part of his times but he also helps to create them. We speak of the “times” but time in itself is empty and meaningless unless made conceivable by phenomena. Time is expressed through life and life is conflict motion within the times. Thus time can never evoke one style only; an individual may dominate his generation but if we attach our- selves to the one outstanding personality we may miss the significance of the whole era. By examining the individuals and following their develop- ment without regard for a larger aim we jeopardize a true understanding of the development of an art.