LET THERE BE SCULPTURE by Jacob Epstein FOUNDED 1838 G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1940, BY JACOB EPSTEIN All rights reserved. TAis book, or parts thereof, must not b reproduced in any jorm without permission. Designed by jRolwt Josephy Itia IN THE UNITED STAVftS Of A M I El C A r M iit it Ay-, THE VISITATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR permission to quote from letters and articles published in numerous newspapers and periodicals, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude both to the publishers and, in the case of signed articles and letters, to the authors. My thanks are due to the Birmingham Mail, the British Medical Journal, the Catholic Times, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Eve ning Standard including an article from the Pall Mall Gazette, now amalgamated with the Evening Standard, the Manchester GiMrdian, the Nation, Neptune, the New Age, the New English Weekly, the News Chronicle, the New Statesman, the New York Evening Post, the Observer, Picture Post, Reynolds Illustrated Weekly, the Spectator, the Star, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Pictorial, the Sunday Times, the London Times, Truth, the Uni verse and to William Heinemann, Ltd., for permission to quote from Ibsens When We Dead Awaken, Also to the following people, who have given their personal per mission to quote their words from the sources mentioned above L. B, Powell, Professor D, S. MacColl, Sir Muirhead Bone, Holbrook Jackson, Mary Borden, Pierre Jeannerat, Sir Eric Maclagan, Richard Sickert, Sir Kenneth Clark, G. F. Hill, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, J, B, Manson, T, W, Earp, Sir Edwin Lutyens, R. R. Tatlock, Sir Charles Allom, W, H. Coatc, Sir Charles Holden, James Bone, Sir Reginald Blomfield, Charles Marriott article in the Outlook, J Middleton Murry, Sander Pierron, Hugh Gordon Porteus, William McCance, Raymond Mortimer, Jan Gordon, R. H, Wilenskl, Bernard Shaw, H. G, Wells, Sir John Lavery, Ezra Pound article in the Bgoitt, Rev. Albert Beldea, Antony Blunt, Rev. L. Weatherhead, John Macadam, Rev. Edward ShilHto, Law rence Binyon, Sir George Hill, Robert Jessel and John Gibbons, CONTENTS i New York 1880-1902 3 n Paris Aa Apprenticeship. London Days of Struggle 1902-1905 15 in A Thirty Years War The Strand Statues 1908-1937 24 iv Contacts and Encounters 1908-1912 33 v The Tomb of Oscar Wilde 1912-1913 43 vi Abstractionists and Futurists. A Philosopher Friend 1913-1917 49 vii Portraits 58 vm My First Statue of Christ 1917-1920 92 ix On the Edge of Londons Bohemia 99 x The Hudson Memorial the Rima Row 1925 105 xi New York Revisited 1927 114 xn Day and Night Genesis. Old Testament Drawings 1929-1933 xni Behold the Man. Consummatum Est 1935-1937 xiv Les Fleurs du Mai 1938 142 vii viii CONTENTS xv Adam 1939 150 xvi Children 157 xvn African and Other Primitive Carvings 161 xvin The British Museum and Greek Sculpture 167 xix Journalists and the Jew. Dog Eats Dog 176 xx I Listen to Music 188 xxi The Position of the Artist. Sculptors of Today 194 xxn My Place in Sculpture 2 10 APPENDIX i The Strand Statues Controversy 217 n The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, Attack and Defense 254 in Mr. Epstein and the Critics by T. E, Hulmc 271 iv The Statue of Christ 278 v The Muirhead Bone Memorandum on the Hudson Memorial 288 vi The Battle of Day and Night 300 vii Genesis and the Journalists 308 vni Behold the Man 320 ix Consmmmtum Est 3 3 1 x Adam 34 xi Catalogue of the CMef Works of Jacob Epstein 354381 ILLUSTRATIONS The Visitation Frontispiece FACING PAGE Woman md Child the Strand Statues 26 Nan 36 Israfel 36 Dolores 50 Joseph Conrad 64 George Bernard Shaw 64 Albert Einstein 68 Admiral Lord Fisher 68 Haile Selassie Emperor of Abyssinia 74 JR. B, Cunninghame-Graham 80 The th Duke of Marlborongh 86 The Christ 94 Rimar-the W. H...

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THE SCULPTOR SPEAKS JACOB EPSTEIN TO ARNOLD L. HASKELL A series of conversations on Art GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, DORAN AND COMPANY, INC 1932 SELF PORTRAIT 1920 Dedicated by the Author to MRS. JACOB EPSTEIN CONTENTS INTRODUCTION Arnold L. Haskell i CHAPTER I. ON ART CRITICISM AND THEE WRITING OF BOOKS I II. MAINLY AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL. EARLY DAYS PARIS THEE STRAND STATUES THEE OSCAR WILDE MEMORIAL. IO III. A DISCUSSION ON BEAUTY RIMA. A RESUME OF THE CRITICISM OF RIMA 2.1 IV. THE STATUE OF CHRIST 3 3 V. NIGHT AND DAY. A RESUME OF THE CRITICISM OF NIGHT AND DAY 40 VI. IN THE STUDIO ON PORTRAITURE PSYCHOLOGY AND ART MODELLING AND CARVING NAMING A WORK DISTORTION IN ART 56 VII. PRIVATE VIEW DAYS GENESIS A DISCUSSION ON BAROQUE SCULPTURE AFRICAN ART THE MEANING OF INFLUENCES IN ART JJ VIII. PUBLIC MONUMENTS PICASSO PRIMI TIVE ART PERIOD AND NATIONAL ITY SUBJECT MATTER IN ART CONTENTS continued. CHAPTER PAGE SENSUALITY RUDE AND LA MAR SEILLAISE 95 IX. PAST AND PRESENT MICHAEL ANGELO AND DONATELLO RODIN BRANCUSI MODIGLIANI MAILLOL GAUDIER - BR ESKA HENRY MOORE IIJ X. CHARACTERISTICS OF GREAT ART TRADITION AN INTRODUCTION TO THE APPRECIATION OF ART 134 XI. AMERICA AND AMERICAN SCULPTURE 148 Appendix I. An article by the late T. E. Hulme. Appendix II. Catalogue raisonn6 of the works of Jacob Epstein, 1907-1931. Appendix III. Exhibitions held by Jacob Epstein, ILLUSTRATIONS PAGE SELF-PORTRAIT Frontispiece SUNITA charcoal drawing faing iv THE MADONNA AND CHILD xi THE SERAPH 4 ELLEN JANSEN IO THE LITTLE NEGRESS pencil drawing 12 PROFESSOR JOHN DEWEY 21 MAY 26 RIMA 29 DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE 34 DAY 47 NIGHT 50 ESTHER 55 THE RT. HON. THE VISCOtJNT ROTHER MERE, P. C. 59 THE SICK CHILD 6l .-THEVISITATION 63 THE RT. HON. JAMES RAMSAY MAC DONALD, P. C. 68 THE MADONNA AND CHILD detail 70 MARCHESA CASATI 78 GENESIS 3 82 ILLUSTRATIONS continued PAGE THE HON. STEPHEN TENNANT facing 84 BIBLICAL SUBJECT pencil and wash drawing 91 ISRAFEL 3, 94 DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH 99 A PORTRAIT, , 1 08 ELSA LANCHESTER 112 MIRIAM 117 PUTTI 122 DR, CRAMER iz6 JOAN GREENWOOD 131 DAISY DUNN 135 PAUL ROBESON 139 MIRIAM PLICHTE 143 LYDIA 150 AFTER TWO DOVES 169 AFTER THE CHRIST 3 175 AFTER THE SUN GOD, 190 AFTER LYDIA 191 INTRODUCTION I CANNOT in this introduction explain Epstein, and in his own conversation Epstein cannot and does not attempt to explain himself. The French painter Vlaminck summed up the situation admirably when he said La bonne peinture cest comme de la bonne cuisine, ca se goute mais a ne sexplique pas. We can only hint. His work is there for all to see. It is extremely unlikely that this book will convert anyone to the view held by the writer of this introduction that Jacob Epstein, almost alone in the world to-day, holds the secret of true beauty, and that his work like all things truly beautiful will endure without relying in any way upon fashion for its appreciation. It may well be that so positive a statement of belief at the very beginning of this study does my subject a disservice in the eyes of the reader not prepared to follow me to such lengths, or who may well already be in positive and violent disagreement with me. But I have reached my conclusion after very many years and a close study of all the work, and I am therefore unwilling to state it in a more INTRODUCTION subtle and roundabout manner, were that possible. There is altogether too much vague and incon clusive writingon art, and enthusiasm is too often carefully hidden under a mass of so-called technical jargon. I am not prepared to call every work of the sculptor a masterpiece, just because it is signed Epstein to do that would most surely infuriate the artist, and under such conditions this book would never have been written. But my position with regard to Epsteins vision is clear, and I stress it fully conscious of the risk of losing sympathy at the outset...

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LET THERE BE SCULPTURE by Jacob Epstein FOUNDED 1838 G. P. PUTNAMS SONS NEW YORK COPYRIGHT, 1940, BY JACOB EPSTEIN All rights reserved. TAis book, or parts thereof, must not b reproduced in any jorm without permission. Designed by jRolwt Josephy Itia IN THE UNITED STAVftS Of A M I El C A r M iit it Ay-, THE VISITATION ACKNOWLEDGMENTS FOR permission to quote from letters and articles published in numerous newspapers and periodicals, I wish to acknowledge my gratitude both to the publishers and, in the case of signed articles and letters, to the authors. My thanks are due to the Birmingham Mail, the British Medical Journal, the Catholic Times, the Daily Express, the Daily Mail, the Daily Telegraph, the Eve ning Standard including an article from the Pall Mall Gazette, now amalgamated with the Evening Standard, the Manchester GiMrdian, the Nation, Neptune, the New Age, the New English Weekly, the News Chronicle, the New Statesman, the New York Evening Post, the Observer, Picture Post, Reynolds Illustrated Weekly, the Spectator, the Star, the Sunday Dispatch, the Sunday Pictorial, the Sunday Times, the London Times, Truth, the Uni verse and to William Heinemann, Ltd., for permission to quote from Ibsens When We Dead Awaken, Also to the following people, who have given their personal per mission to quote their words from the sources mentioned above L. B, Powell, Professor D, S. MacColl, Sir Muirhead Bone, Holbrook Jackson, Mary Borden, Pierre Jeannerat, Sir Eric Maclagan, Richard Sickert, Sir Kenneth Clark, G. F. Hill, H. S. Goodhart-Rendel, J, B, Manson, T, W, Earp, Sir Edwin Lutyens, R. R. Tatlock, Sir Charles Allom, W, H. Coatc, Sir Charles Holden, James Bone, Sir Reginald Blomfield, Charles Marriott article in the Outlook, J Middleton Murry, Sander Pierron, Hugh Gordon Porteus, William McCance, Raymond Mortimer, Jan Gordon, R. H, Wilenskl, Bernard Shaw, H. G, Wells, Sir John Lavery, Ezra Pound article in the Bgoitt, Rev. Albert Beldea, Antony Blunt, Rev. L. Weatherhead, John Macadam, Rev. Edward ShilHto, Law rence Binyon, Sir George Hill, Robert Jessel and John Gibbons, CONTENTS i New York 1880-1902 3 n Paris Aa Apprenticeship. London Days of Struggle 1902-1905 15 in A Thirty Years War The Strand Statues 1908-1937 24 iv Contacts and Encounters 1908-1912 33 v The Tomb of Oscar Wilde 1912-1913 43 vi Abstractionists and Futurists. A Philosopher Friend 1913-1917 49 vii Portraits 58 vm My First Statue of Christ 1917-1920 92 ix On the Edge of Londons Bohemia 99 x The Hudson Memorial the Rima Row 1925 105 xi New York Revisited 1927 114 xn Day and Night Genesis. Old Testament Drawings 1929-1933 xni Behold the Man. Consummatum Est 1935-1937 xiv Les Fleurs du Mai 1938 142 vii viii CONTENTS xv Adam 1939 150 xvi Children 157 xvn African and Other Primitive Carvings 161 xvin The British Museum and Greek Sculpture 167 xix Journalists and the Jew. Dog Eats Dog 176 xx I Listen to Music 188 xxi The Position of the Artist. Sculptors of Today 194 xxn My Place in Sculpture 2 10 APPENDIX i The Strand Statues Controversy 217 n The Tomb of Oscar Wilde, Attack and Defense 254 in Mr. Epstein and the Critics by T. E, Hulmc 271 iv The Statue of Christ 278 v The Muirhead Bone Memorandum on the Hudson Memorial 288 vi The Battle of Day and Night 300 vii Genesis and the Journalists 308 vni Behold the Man 320 ix Consmmmtum Est 3 3 1 x Adam 34 xi Catalogue of the CMef Works of Jacob Epstein 354381 ILLUSTRATIONS The Visitation Frontispiece FACING PAGE Woman md Child the Strand Statues 26 Nan 36 Israfel 36 Dolores 50 Joseph Conrad 64 George Bernard Shaw 64 Albert Einstein 68 Admiral Lord Fisher 68 Haile Selassie Emperor of Abyssinia 74 JR. B, Cunninghame-Graham 80 The th Duke of Marlborongh 86 The Christ 94 Rimar-the W. H...

First published in 1902, and illustrated by Jacob Epstein, this evocation of the spiritual and cultural life of Yiddish New York remains fresh and relevant, and an invaluable commentary on one aspect of the formation of modern America. To an extent unequaled by any outsider before him, Hutchins Hapgood, a descendant of generations of New England Yankees, succeeded in penetrating the inner life of an American immigrant community. Hapgood did not set out to reform and cleanse the ghetto. His aim was to understand and interpret it, to find and know its poets, scholars, dramatists, actors, and artists, as well as its merchants and businessmen. He presents real people, individually identified and described, working out their destiny as part of a vital Jewish world. The sensibility and intentions of this book, as the editor points out, "anticipated a period of unexampled American artistic and intellectual gusto and creativity." Moses Rischin's discerning and affectionate introduction places Hapgood's neglected classic squarely in the mainstream of American cultural development.