The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 384
elliptic-lanceolate shape. These human forms that are inserted in this book weredrawn not by the author, but by others to represent what 356 THE ESSENTIALS OF ESTHETICS. were supposed to be approximately perfect proportions.Is it not remarkable that like circles outline so manygeneral features of… … FIG- 81.—WOMANS FORM ENCLOSED BETWEEN LIKE CIRCLES.See page 356. be surprised to find how large a part of a segment of ex-actly the same circle fits either the bend of the calf, fore-arm, thigh, abdomen, chest, or back. If, then, hisexperience—say at a bathing-place—causes him to recallthe…
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