Excerpt from The Art of Painting in the Nineteenth Century<br><br>If you too are caught up by the whirlpool of interest in modern painting, and are bewildered by conflicting claims, this little book is for you. You need not look for epoch-making art criti cism, nor for clever, pithy sayings. Read these pages, please, not for their own sake, but to assure yourself, should this be possible, a less prejudiced mind for the enjoyment of modern art. The field is big, so is the ocean, but, as somebody has said, You need not swim in the whole of it at any one time. With best wishes.<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.