The Art SPIRIT as ENVSIONED by Robert Henri: Complete and Now Completed

by James Morrison (Editor), Marjorie Ryerson (Compiler)

Overview

"The Art Spirit has had universal appeal because it addresses the reader on so many levels: as a painter's manual, a guide to aesthetic appreciation, a philosophy of art and life, and a spur to creative activity." This edition's organization is derived to a great extent from the headings and careful index Henri himself prepared.!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9798855689327
Publisher:	Barnes & Noble Press
Publication date:	12/24/2023
Edition description:	The "As Envisioned" Edition
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

ROBERT HENRI (1865-1929)
The author was an American artist, teacher, and outspoken advocate of modernism in painting. He is best known for his leadership of the group of Social Realist painters known as “The Eight,” later
so called the “Ashcan School”. They used everyday city life as a subject matter and championed the disenfranchised. He taught at the Art Students League and his own school in New York from 1915 to 1928. He profoundly influenced early 20th-century painters, many of whom were his students. George Bellows, Arnold Franz Brasz, Stuart Davis, Edward Hopper, Rockwell Kent, Henry Ives Cobb,
Jr., Lillian Cotton, John Sloan, Minerva Teichert, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, and Marjory A. Ryerson. He was the author of The Art Spirit, 1923.

Editorial Reviews

"Robert Henri's book The Art Spirit... loved that book! I used to carry it everywhere."

"Art Life" - David Lynch