Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Womanhood in Art
It is the effort of art to relate itself to life in terms of beauty; and of life to interpret its aims in forms of action and endurance. There is a philosophy of each which makes the one choose for its motives external grace and reality; the other define its privileges and duties by current gain or loss.
But there is a nobler interpretation of life than that which concerns itself solely with the fleeting things which must be borne and done; and of art than the representation of an ephemeral charm or incident. Such a conception finds in every worthy act, in every form idealized in marble or in color, a messenger of life. It makes beauty the memory and minister of good.
Beyond the dreary levels of the passing hour there lies a background and a foreground, a record and a promise.
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