The genesis of art-form; an essay in comparative æsthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture (1893)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons · leaf 167
tter of what wouldelse be insubordinate, and reduces all to order (^Incongru-ity in such cases really adds to the general effect of con-gruity, because it suggests, as nothing else could, theoverwhelming power of that tendency to produce a singleeffect upon thought, which finally blends the whole… … UJ CT> ui * 144 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. selves a tendency to expect to find inthem certain formsinvariably associated—forms, too, with outlines and colorsnot at all similar, which in fact may belong to objects asdissimilar as human beings, buildings, trees, plains, hills,and clouds. A little…
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