Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927, Balch, Eugenia Hargous Macfarlane · Philadelphia : Allen, Lane and Scott · leaf 20
d a more advanced field than the earlymechanical arts to gauge the condition of man and there-fore the fine arts, of all times and all peoples everywhere,need to be compared. Comparisons of the arts of to-day,the characteristics of whose makers we know, with thearts of the past are bound to shed… … Fig. 1. Snake woman, Minoan Crete. 16 ART AND MAN. geographical distribution of each art and this mustbe of value to ethnology and history. The subject is anenormous one and in my opinion it should be recognizedas a special field of study called comparative art, aname I used already in 1906. That…
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