Painting, sculpture and architecture as representative arts; an essay in comparative æsthetics (1895)
Raymond, George Lansing, 1839-1929 · New York [etc.] G. P. Putnam's sons · leaf 108
ly per-pendicular cliff, the pointed peak, cause us to think andoften to say that they look precisely as if a man hadbeen at work upon them, levelling or blasting. Fewnatural objects, indeed, have outlines absolutely straightor angular ; but always, in the degree in which they areso, the impression… … FIG. 31— AN ATTACK. 66 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. of nature, whether produced by fire, frost, wind, orearthquake, that leave behind them, if their progress canbe traced at all, such results of crystallizing, cracking, andrending, as are manifested in straight lines and angles.Notice…
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