The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 382
FIG. 78.~VASES OUTLINED BY ELLIPSES AND CIRCLES.353 23 See page 355. 354 THE ESSENTIALS OF ESTHETICS. fitted to be perceived, which is the exact etymologicalmeaning of the word cestJictic. This fact furnishes thebest possible justification for calling the curve—particu-larly, as we shall notice… … FIG. 79.—BUILDING ENCLOSED BY CIRCLES.See pages 222, 252, 261, 290, 293, 296, 302, 355. classes of facts with which few of us can fail to befamiliar. Recall, for instance, the extensive use in artof this elliptical shape. If we go into the shops wherethey sell implements for drawing, whatever else…
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