: Twenty Drawings by Gibran Kahlil Artist Raphael Alice Commentator - Gibran Kahlil 1883-1931

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Commentator: Alice Pearl Raphael

Transcriber's Notes:

TWENTY DRAWINGS

BY KAHLIL GIBRAN

WITH AN INTRODUCTORY ESSAY BY ALICE RAPHAEL

PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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ON THE ART OF KAHLIL GIBRAN

"The lives of former generations are a lesson to posterity." This quotation from the volume which is currently accepted as the masterpiece of ancient Arabic literature, The Thousand and One Nights, serves in a slightly paraphrased form as a fitting introduction to the work of the most authoritative artist and poet of modern Arabia--Kahlil Gibran.

In the near East there are over a hundred million whose native language is Arabic and the poetry of Gibran has become so incorporated with the national traditions of these people that one is not quoting lightly in saying that "the works of the present generation are a lesson to posterity." But Gibran the poet, who has been known to the Arabian world of letters as poet, critic and historian for twenty-four years, has already been introduced to the English reading public by his book "The Madman," a collection of poems and parables, some translated by him for his own works in Arabic and others written directly in English with an admirable fluency and command of the Western tongue.

It is Gibran the painter whose drawings are now being brought to the attention of his American audience and the following interpretation of his art will perhaps serve as a clue to the ever entrancing mystery of the harmonies and dissonances which exist between the East and the West.

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