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 340
struct its own contours for objects,would be an age in which drawing would become a lostart. Here, as elsewhere, the truth seems to lie betweenthe extremes. And does not the salvation of art as oflife depend upon its fidelity to truth ? But there is another effect which distance has upon theline.… … < £ ° o 0 «T I- w 1 „ O vO Up r b * z S3 o o < N 298 PAINTING, SCULPTURE, AND ARCHITECTURE. height, we find all the lines of sidewalks, curbstones, base-ments, and roofs gradually converging in the extremedistance. In case two parallel lines are as near togetheras the two tracks of a railway,…
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