Art And Revolution
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing
Published: June 17, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 48
ISBN-13: 9781419107702
Subjects: History Of Art / Art & Design Styles; Art & Art Instruction; Art; History - General
First sentence: THOMAS CARLYLE, in his History of Frederick the Great, (1) characterises the outbreak of the French Revolution as the First Act of the "Spontaneous Combustion" of a nation "sunk into torpor, abeyance, and dry-rot," and admonishes his readers in the following words:-There is the next mile-stone for you, in the History of Mankind!