American art and American art collections; essays on artistic subjects (1889)
Montgomery, Walter · Boston, E.W. Walker & co · leaf 444
colored by the indi-viduality and prejudice of authorship, and is thus more expressive of a general average of emotion.It visibly sets forth a common ideal of life, and is singularly indicative of the attitude andquality of contemporary civilization. But, in the midst of the complicated… … Obelisk and Pylon at Luxor.Engraved on Wood by S. S. Kilburn, from a Photograph. 354 AMERICAN ART oppressed by the accumulation of knowledge; so that, by reason of the very completeness of itsappreciation of the monumental expressions of antiquity, architecture cannot speak without aconsciousness…
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