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 171
urces, let us con-sider that of their directions as influenced by themental aims of expression. All that can be said here, ofcourse, must be founded upon observation, and a verylittle observation, when aided, as fortunately it can beby the system of Delsarte, especially as developed byhis many… … FIG. 68—DROWNING MAN.See page 129. REPRESENTATION THROUGH POSTURES. 129 internal to the external. When a man, as in drowning,loses vitality, his thumb and fingers bend toward the palm,and his hands, arms, legs, and head toward his trunk(see Fig. 68, page 128). But where his body is full oflife,…
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