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 258
tive attitude.The moment that we examine closely the way in whichthe gesture is used, we cannot doubt that this is preciselywhat it does represent. There are two forms of it,namely, the closing, in which the palm is averted, i. e.,turned away from the body, where the speaker cannot seeit, as in… … seems to push downward, upward, backward, forward, orsideward, as if to keep all external things or thoughtsfrom touching or influencing the one who is gesturing.It seems to close all channels of communication betweenhim and the outside world. Notice howthe left hand of the Christ in Fig. 36,page…
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