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 51
r effects in The Soldiers Return, Fig. 52,page 176. So, too, with architecture. Notice the con-ventional fronts of the buildings on many of the streetsof our cities. Thejr accumulations of doors and windowsand cornices, all of like sizes and shapes, are certainly notin the highest sense… … 28 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. interest the mind, forms must continue to present to itsomething that has not been seen before. All these factsshow that even though an art-product is constructed, inthe main, upon the principle of putting like with like, alack of likeness is sometimes desirable in order…
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