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 247
mber of themes or phrases, say, ina symphony, the more complicated, as a rule, are its move-ments ; and the greater the number of trees or rocks in alandscape, the more complicated, as a rule, are the factorscomposing it. But while this is true, these factors, if complicated inan artistic manner,… … £ « Q M I ci CD SI 224 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. 225, also Fig. 9, page 38). When, says Charles Blanc,in his Art in Ornament and Dress, the surface orna-mented according to Arabian taste has no dominant subjectindicated by its isolation or by its color, the spectatorhas only before him an assemblage…
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