20th Century Stage Decoration - by Walter Rene Fuerst & Samuel J. Hume

XXth Century Stage Decoration: Volume one: text
by Walter Rene Fuerst & Samuel J. Hume

large hardcover (no jacket) in good used condition

"Art is an attitude. This attitude ought to be humanity's collective heritage. Instead, we have narrowed it down, made it the personal attribute of the "artist" alone, of the creator of the work of art. Histories of art thus made to consist of chronological lists of such works and of their different methods. We have music, architecture, sculpture, painting, as though art must necessarily consist of carven stones, sounds, colors, even words. Our museums, concerts, and libraries seem to confirm this view. Not twenty years ago, these institutions appeared to us unshakable; they stood for art, as its glorious trustees and guardians." Today, they are so no longer....."