Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Technology Review, 1903, Vol. 5
Even now there are tangible indications of a more uni versal appreciation of the value of the F ine Arts. One of these indications is the important consideration which the university Columbia in particular - is giving to the ques tion as to whether or not its curriculum and methods can serve for the proper training of the sculptor and painter. Universities have in the past ofi'ered courses in the Fine Arts, but to the end of a broadening culture rather than for the training of men who are able to create examples of fine art. This new movement concerns the F ine Arts from that particular and important standpoint. Architecture, from its very intimate relation to our every-day needs, has always received more attention than the other branches of art; but even that strong, inherent advantage has not enabled it, thus far, to rise above the stronger in?uences of Science and Commerce. And most of our architecture to-day is archi tecture in name only, its value measured in the prevailing commercial spirit of the times, and the architect's success rated by the quantity of work rather than by its quality. Painting, sculpture, and landscape architecture in this coun try have been, up to the present, the interest mainly of individuals who, from a natural inclination toward such things, have striven to keep them alive. But now the people as a whole are awakening to the interest and value of these precious gifts to civilization, and, judging from the results thus far, are awakening with the same sense of be wilderment as that of a person coming out of a deep sleep.
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