10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «DILETTANTEISM»
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dilettanteism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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That, ladies and gentlemen, leads directly to dilettanteism; and dilettanteism is
the death both of all art and of all morality. Oh, certainly, I know very well I speak
like a barbarian, not to say like one possessed; at all events, like an iconoclast;
and ...
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East & West: A Monthly Magazine of Letters
Dilettanteism has followed of necessity on the heels of this material progress
which has marked the last fifty years. You feel it yourself when you enjoy your
drawings by Hokusay, when you read Tolstoy, when you admire the Taj Mahal,
just as ...
William Aspenwall Bradley, George Sidney Hellman,
1900
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East & West: A Monthly Magazine of Letters
But tell me about Dilettanteism, and who is a Dilettante, if you are not ? " " I think
Dilettanteism is that spirit that leads one to try to see what there is in every
production of the human spirit, to try to understand, appreciate, to feel every
beautiful ...
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Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Noting M. Renan's qualities of exquisite sensitiveness, his Celtic imagination. the
poetry of his thought and style, M. Bourget expounded three phases of Renanism
, which he distinguished as Dilettanteism, Religiosity, and Aristocracy.
The almost morbid finish of every material detail of her - .life suggested the
possibility that a diversity of energies had, by some pressure of circumstance,
been forced into the channel of a narrow dilettanteism. Mrs. Quentin's
fastidiousness had, ...
Henry Mills Alden, Frederick Lewis Allen, Lee Foster Hartman,
1902
That, ladies and gentlemen, leads directly to dilettanteism ; and dilettanteism is
the death both of all art and of all morality. "Oh, certainly, I know very well I speak
like a barbarian, not to say like one possessed; at all events, like an iconoclast; ...
The light irony that runs through his books still further iudisposes the critic whose
soul is blind to the charms of dilettanteism, and who has not ai'i'iv_etl at that
degree of refined intellectuality where the mind grasps so ma_.iiy truths that it is ...
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Museum Ideals of Purpose and Method
This is emotional dilettanteism. Or, we may make an artist's work serve our thirst
for theoretical or practical knowledge. Instead of trying to assimilate the work itself
, we may strive to learn about it. Our aim may be, not to perceive it, not to take it ...
Benjamin Ives Gilman,
1918
Having commenced by quoting our Historian's opinion of the method and results
of modern architectural practice, let us now collect and hear what Goethe has to
say about artistic Dilettanteism. The * Dilettants,' who still maintain their social ...
It cannot be denied that all these efforts still impress us as discursive and
disconnected, indeed, at times, even as superficial ; consequently, the question is
frequently asked whether we are not encouraging an intolerable dilettanteism.
This ...
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Words of Everest, ITV
The expedition lexicon of 1924, still marinaded in Edwardian dilettanteism, was more what-ho than gung-ho. As the weather closed in, ... «The Arts Desk, May 13»