The Old Card
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About This Book
Excerpt from The Old CardA visit to any modern French Art Gallery will reveal a number of canvases daubed all over with little patches of primary colours, almost as though the picture had been painted with confetti. Assuming you are unaccustomed to this form of application, you Will declare against it with insular promptitude. But 'give the picture a chances step back and view it from the far wall, and like as not you will find that these chaotic colours have blended and co mingled, have ceased to exist as individual items and become merged in a single statement of meaning the artist intended ...
Chapters (26)
- CONTENTS
- FOREWORD
- CHAPTER I THE BIG CHANCE
- CHAPTER II PISTOLS FOR TWO
- CHAPTER III THE CURE THAT WORKED WONDERS
- CHAPTER IV THE ELIPHALET TOUCH
- CHAPTER V GETTING THE BEST
- CHAPTER VI QUICKSANDS OF TRADITION
- CHAPTER VII GAS WORKS
- CHAPTER VIII MORNICE JUNE
- CHAPTER IX A REVERSIBLE FAVOUR
- CHAPTER X THE DEAR DEPARTED
- CHAPTER XI CLOUDS
- CHAPTER XII THE FINAL CURTAIN
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