Author: Lawrence Gilman

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-10-16

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 9780265386040

Excerpt from Edward Macdowell: A Study In completing this survey of one who in his art is still of to-day, I have been poignantly con scious throughout of the fact that posterity has an inconvenient habit of reversing the judgments delivered Upon creative artists by their contem poraries; yet to trim deftly one's convictions in the h0pe that they may elastically conform to any one of a number of possible verdicts to be expected from a capricious futurity, is probably as dangerous a proceeding as to avow, without equivocation or compromise, one's precise beliefs. 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.