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 39
eis true of art-composition. Its object is to unite manydifferent features in a single form, an effect invariably pro- UNITY AND COMPARISON. 15 duced, too, by all except the most elementary productsof nature. Unity being the aim of classification, it is evident thatthe most natural way of attaining… … FIQ. 1.—RESTORATION OF THE WEST END OF THE ACROPOLIS.See pages 16, 75, 8g, 123, 207, 261. pare, that the mind classes them in one group, and isenabled ever after to conceive of this group as a unity. Turning now to the aesthetic arts, and considering howwhat we term form in them has been developed,…
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