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 232
to unity of effect.These principal styles and some of the subordinate stylesdeveloped from them differ so essentially that to blendthem is to cause confusion in the form where the mind 2C>8 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. demands intelligibility, which, so far as our present lineof thought is… … FIQ. 69.—POUTOU TEMPLE, NINGPO, CHINA.See pages 18, 124, 207, 264. Fig. 67 in this chapter, Figs. 4, page 21, and 5, page 23,and 60, page 191, as well as in too many of those sopopular in our own day, said to be erected in the style ofQueen Anne, are not, whatever else they may be, worksof art.…
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