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 208
FIG. 56.—DANCER. (From the Marble Relief Discovered in the Theatre of Dionysus.) See pages 16, 144, 182, 257. i&r THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. derived byway of association from the former significanceof the term, which now it has lost. By symmetry, fromffvv and jjerpor, the Greeks meant what we now… … FIG, 57.—A BUST INSCRIBED WITH THE NAME OF NEBO.—IBritish Museum.)See page 183. conception of proportion they derived, primarily, from themeasurements of the human figure. But, according to ouruse of the terms, while a well proportioned form would al-ways be symmetrical, a form like that of a very…
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