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 179
by facts the accuracyof this inference. With a littleemotion, instinctive rather than reflective in its source,the angles of the arms and hands, as indeed of the wholebody, are so slight that all seem to be curves (see Fig. 20,page 48, also Fig. 34, page 71). With a little emotion,mainly of a… … FIG. 78.DANCING MOVEMENTS. See pages 130, 135, 142. REPRESENTATION THROUGH POSTURES. 137 its source be instinctive or reflective, every movementbecomes more or less angular as well as curved (see Figs.73, page 132, and 39, page 79). It need scarcely be pointedout now that to associate the…
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