Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

Langl, Josef

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Titel:: Modern art education, its practical and aesthetic character educationally considered : being part of the Austrian official report on the Vienna world's fair of 1873

Erscheinungsort:: Boston

Herausgeber:: L. Prang and Company

Dokumenttyp:: Monographie

Bestand:: Wiener Weltausstellung 1873

Erscheinungsjahr:: 1875

Ausgabenbezeichnung:: [Electronic ed.]

Sprache:: Englisch

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Titel:: AMERICAN PREFACE

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XVI AMERICAN PREFACE. nothing in the case of those manufactures which embodj’ a large degree of skill and taste, since the cost of transporting them is a mere trifle compared with their value. The question then arises, How can foreign competition in products emhodying a large degree of skill or taste he best met in the home market? Bj' taritfs? certainly not. By cheapening labor? certainly not; but by properly educating labor. Espe- cially is this true in the case of art-manufactures whose market value is wholly or largely dependent on their beauty. A tariff may, indeed, compel one to refrain from purchasing the beautiful foreign product, but it will not necessarily make him purchase the ugly object of home manufacture. The latter does not meet the demands of the aesthetic sensibilities, and so is not wanted at any price. Can a man who is thirsty be satisfied with bread, however good it maybe? Can the ear that longs for melody be made content with the sound of a quartz-mill, however abundant the' gold it stamps out? Assuredly not. Neither can the desire for beautiful tliings be satisfled with komeiy objects, tliough made of the costliest materials and in the most durable manner. Iheie is, indeed, but one etfectual way for any country to ineet loieign competition in its home market; and that is, to put as mach taste and skill into its own manufactures as the foreigner puts into Ins. What is true of the home market is true, with a little more emphasis, of the great market of the world. A LESSON FOR AMERICANS. Now, to mention nothing more, can it be doubted that the three things named, — 1, the great relative inerease of the manufactur- ing Fnterests and of the artisan classes ; 2, the greater desirability of manufaetures which involve skill and taste; 3, the greatly widened and intensifled competition of the market, can it be doubted that these three things alone fully justify the efforts made by- European governments in behalf of general art and industrial education? And can it be doubted that this country ought to take seriously to heart the example of its great industrial rivals ? While we guard the traditional “ Monroe Doctrine ” so vigilantly, waim- ing up to a white heat, as we are so apt to do, whenevei a foieign power shows an inclination to appropriate to itself a foot of soll,

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