Excerpt from The Arts, Vol. 3: February 1923 And so it happens that it was not until the Chariva'ri was started shortly after 1830, with Daumier as its principal contributor, that we find a civilization truly depicted in its habitual, ordinary, casual, unthinking life, manner and gesture. None of the earlier men ever depicted the crowd, fre quently they drew lots of people in a street or a room, but only with the greatest infrequency the living, swaying, pushing, swirling, many armed and legged animal we know as the crowd. ...
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Excerpt from The Arts, Vol. 3: February 1923 And so it happens that it was not until the Chariva'ri was started shortly after 1830, with Daumier as its principal contributor, that we find a civilization truly depicted in its habitual, ordinary, casual, unthinking life, manner and gesture. None of the earlier men ever depicted the crowd, fre quently they drew lots of people in a street or a room, but only with the greatest infrequency the living, swaying, pushing, swirling, many armed and legged animal we know as the crowd. But in the pages of Daumier, it appears again and again, hot, close packed, laughing or angry, hurrying or stag nant, but every time it is the crowd - the. Jam of urban folk which seems to have first been made towards the beginning of the nineteenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... 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.
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