The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 5

Download or read book The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 5 written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-10 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 5: January June, 1879 All art up to the beginning of the sixteenth century was decora tive art, and even up to the present day many of the greatest efforts of art have been truly decorative. But with the growing skill of the artists in mastering the technical difficulties of their craft, the tendency developed of making paintings and sculptures with less and less regard to the relations they were to bear to objects around them and to balanced distribution of color, until now, the commonly accepted idea of a painting or piece of sculpture is an object bearing no relation whatever, either in sentiment, color, or form, to any of its surroundings, and in the case of paintings separated from its sur roundings by the strongest imaginable barrier, - a heavy mass of gilded frame. The artists and the public together have gradually wrought this change, and architecture, sculpture, and painting, instead of work ing hand in hand, as they once did. In the realization of ideas that glorified them, all have come to live separate existences, seriously to the detriment of them all. 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.