{"product_id":"2940015595123","title":"Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts","description":"Foreword\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhat accents itself in the mind of the layman who makes even a cursory\u003cbr\u003estudy of the sculptors and their works at the Panama-Pacific\u003cbr\u003eInternational Exposition is the fine, inspiring sincerity and uplift\u003cbr\u003ethat each man brings to his work. One cannot be a great sculptor\u003cbr\u003eotherwise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sculptor's work calls for steadfastness of purpose through long\u003cbr\u003eyears of study, acute observation, the highest standards, fine\u003cbr\u003eintellectual ability and above all a decided universalism - otherwise\u003cbr\u003ethe world soon passes him by.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt is astonishing to see brought together the work of so many really\u003cbr\u003egreat sculptors. America has a very large number of talented men\u003cbr\u003eexpressing themselves on the plastic side - and a few geniuses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Exposition of 1915 has given the world the opportunity of seeing the\u003cbr\u003epurposeful heights to which these men have climbed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe have today real American sculpture - work that savors of American\u003cbr\u003esoil - a splendid national expression.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever before have so many remarkable works been brought together; and\u003cbr\u003eAmerican sculpture is only in its infancy - born, one might say, after\u003cbr\u003ethe Centennial Exposition of 1876.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe wholesome part of it all is that men and women are working\u003cbr\u003eindependently in their expressions. We do not see that effect here of\u003cbr\u003eone man trying to fit himself to another man's clothing. The work is all\u003cbr\u003edistinctly individual. This individualism for any art is a hopeful\u003cbr\u003eoutlook.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe sculpture has vitalized the whole marvelous Exposition. It is not an\u003cbr\u003eaccessory, as has been the sculpture of previous Expositions, but it\u003cbr\u003egoes hand in hand with the architecture, poignantly existing for its own\u003cbr\u003esake and adding greatly to the decorative architectural effects. In many\u003cbr\u003ecases the architecture is only the background or often only a pedestal\u003cbr\u003efor the figure or group, pregnant with spirit and meaning.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThose who have the city's growth at heart should see to it that these\u003cbr\u003emen of brain and skill and inspiration are employed to help beautify the\u003cbr\u003ecommercial centers, the parks, the boulevards of our cities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe need the fine lessons of beauty and uplift around us.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe beautify our houses and spend very little time in them. Why not\u003cbr\u003ebeautify our outside world where we spend the bulk of our time?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe, a pleasure-loving people, are devoting more time every year to\u003cbr\u003eoutside life. Would it not be a thorough joy to the most prosaic of us\u003cbr\u003eto have our cities beautified with inspiring sculpture?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWe do a great deal in the line of horticultural beautifying - we could\u003cbr\u003edo far more - but how little we have done with one of the most\u003cbr\u003emeaningful and stimulating of the arts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLet us see to it, in San Francisco at least, that a few of these works\u003cbr\u003eare made permanent.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTake as an example James Earle Fraser's \"End of the Trail.\" Imagine the\u003cbr\u003eeffect of that fine work silhouetted against the sky out near Fort\u003cbr\u003ePoint, on a western headland, with the animal's head toward the sea, so\u003cbr\u003ethat it would be evident to the onlooker that the Indian had reached the\u003cbr\u003every end of the trail. It would play a wonderful part in the beauty of\u003cbr\u003ethe landscape.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOr take Edith Woodman Burroughs' \"Youth.\" What a delight a permanent\u003cbr\u003ereproduction of that fountain would be if placed against the side of one\u003cbr\u003eof the green hills out at Golden Gate Park - say near the Children's\u003cbr\u003ePlayground - with a pool at its base. It is only by concerted action\u003cbr\u003ethat we will ever get these works among us. Who is going to take the\u003cbr\u003elead?","brand":"SAP","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47146404446448,"sku":"2940015595123","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940015595123","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}