The Fun Library, vol. 8: Stage, Study and Studio

The Fun Library, vol. 8: Stage, Study & Studio

The life of what still passes in London for Bohemiain and about the theatres, the studios and the literary clubsfigures conspicuously in the pictorial humour of our time. It is but natural that the artist in search of inspiration should occasionally turn his attention to his own immediate surroundings, and find subjects for his art in the comic representation of his fellows of the brush and pencil, his friends the authors and the actors, and not infrequently, himself! Some of the most pointed jokes of Keene, Du Maurier and Phil May introduced the artist, and in the case of the last mentioned he usually depicted his own form and features, as Cruikshank was fond of doing more than half a century before him. This tradition has been well maintained among the artists of a later day. We shall find that a very considerable proportion of the humorous art of the moment concerns itself with the sayings and doings of our Bohemiansa term, by the way, that indicates a very mild and inoffensive variety of an almost extinct type of character. The Bohemian of the twentieth century is a much more wholesome person than his prototype of the middle of the nineteenth. He may be still as irresponsible, as unconventional in his manners, but he is at least clean and less apt to degenerate into the sponger. He of the older generation provided picturesque material for the humorist of[ii] the pencil; but the stage, the study, and the studio still furnish much matter for mirth, as the admirable work of Mr. W. K. Haselden, Mr. Bert Thomas, Mr. H. M. Bateman, Mr. J. L. C. Booth, Mr. Charles Pears, and other living artists of note, represented in the present collection, bear ample witness. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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Ebook Number: 52614
Author: Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander)
Release Date: Jul 21, 2016
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Editor: Hammerton, J. A. (John Alexander), 1871-1949
Illustrator: Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896 , Thomson, J. Gordon