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 122
excess, the curves being made particularly round andthe angles particularly sharp. See Fig. 41, page 81, alsoFig. 220, page 392. Now what is the architectural significance of a predomi-nance of each of these methods of bringing outlines to-gether, namely, through curves, through angles, or… … o o o H cr CO o M 80 PAIN-TING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. struction ? What is the shape of ant-hills, birds nests, orbeavers dams? What is the shape of that which a manconstructs in the forest when he breaks off the limbs ofthe trees, and, binding them together, builds himselfsomething in which…
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