The Subject in Art. II. John Lucas Tupper 1 1849
prose essay <artist/> <location/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnpictorial> <citnmythic> <name/> <culture/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnmythic> <citnhistorical> <event/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnhistorical> <citnautobiographical> <name/> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnautobiographical> <citnscenic> <place/> <date/> <bibl/> <note/> </citnscenic> </listcitn> </source> <commentaries> <head>Commentary</head> <section type="intro"> <head>Introduction</head> <p>This is the second part of Tupper's essay; the first part appeared in <title level="per"> <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 1. In this section of the essay Tupper concentrates “the modern life subject”, which, he argues, is quite as “poetical” as any subject drawn from literature or history.

As in the first part of the essay, this part proceeds as a set of deductions from two first principles: that Fine Art “should regard the general happiness of man” as its object; and that the purpose of such art is “mental excitement” (119).

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First printed in <hi rend="i">The Germ</hi> no. 3, pages 117-125.

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Coombs, James, ed. <hi rend="i">A Pre-Raphaelite Friendship: The Correspondence of William Holman Hunt and John Lucas Tupper</hi> (Ann Arbor, MI: UMI Research Press, 1986).

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