The essentials of æsthetics in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1921)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York ; London : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 255
is conceived of as a foe of overwhelming force,whom one is facing, therefore, as one physically aboveand before the speaker, and not by any means below orbehind him. Now let us consider the shapes assumed by the hand inthe place where the gesture is struck. There may be saidto be three of these… … 234 THE ESSENTIALS OF ^ESTHETICS. respectively, vital or physical, mental or interpretive, andmotive or emotive emphasis. Of the truth of these statements there can be no doubtin the mind of one who thinks of them. All must recog-nise that the fist, the broadest, roundest form that thehand can…
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