Beauty & ugliness : and other studies in psychological aesthetics (1912)
Lee, Vernon, 1856-1935, Anstruther-Thomson, Clementina · London : Lane · leaf 214
the mouldingsand cornices. On the other hand, the arches andupspringing lines produce sensations of easy liftingup and of pleasant activity which more than counterbalance these downward pressures, so that the mainimpression is one of light-heartedness.* The mention of such various pressures, and… … BEAUTY AND UGLINESS 189 leads to the consideration of what we should call thesecondary or humanly emotional quality of theaesthetic phenomenon. For the emotion of harmonious completeness which we have found toconstitute the main aesthetic phenomenon as manifested in every art is susceptible of…
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