The essentials of aesthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1909)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G.P. Putnam · leaf 385
place—causes him to recallthe aesthetic influences of such formations as a long armor leg combined with great leanness, or a small chestcombined with an abnormally large abdomen, he will CURVES IN HUMAN FORM. 357 find upon reflection that the effects of disproportion,while attributable partly to… … FIG. 82.—CIRCLES DRAWN ABOUT A FORM IN GRACEFUL ACTION.SIDE VIEW, See page 356. the moment the calf becomes so large proportionately asto interfere with the suggestions of a like curve in this,and in the outlines of the hip, almost everybody is con-scious of receiving a suggestion of disproportion.…
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