My first book posted since May 2007.
This book describes the artwork exhibited in the Palace of Fine Arts, after the Panama-Pacific Exposition had closed.
The author gives a fairly opinionated view of the artworks presented, an example of which is:
“Such a picture as the “Trembling Leaves,” in the center of Wall D, is worth miles of abortive experiments by simian-like imitators of the Futurists, Cubists, and the rest of the tribe of the Ism-ites.”
Considering prices of a Picasso Cubist work today, I think history has passed the author by.
The author(s) get to the Italian Futurists work, and rather than explaining them, refers the reader the the exhibitions “Catalogue de Luxe;” they then felt the need to explain that liberty in art is dangerous, and that restraint is vital.
Overall a rather pedestrian view to modern art.