Excerpt from The Glasgow School of Painters<br><br>It is the aim of these few introductory pages to treat the artistic movement, which crystallized in the so-called 'glasgow School,' as a historical moment in the development of recent Scottish painting and sculpture, of which all who are interested in the national art must take account. Regarded in its proper perspective the movement represented not a personal rivalry of young and old, but a fresh vindication of the independence and dignity of the arts of painting and sculpture against the ever present tendency of practice to sink into a too facile acquiescence in the popular and the banal. The need for a fresh impulse is in the arts an ever recurring one. It was not pretended at the time, nor would anyone now assert, that in the eighties of the nineteenth century art in Scotland generally was sunk in apathy, but it is none the less clear that then, as at so many other epochs, there was abundant need for a movement of revival, and that the revival has had a most salutary influence on the condition of the arts in our midst.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.