The romance of symbolism and its relation to church ornament and architecture (1909)
Heath, Sidney, 1872- · London : F. Griffiths · leaf 253
a natural object the better it is, provided that it is energetic and vigorous. Nothing is worse than a feeble joke, unless it be a feeble grotesque. The amusing must be convincing, and should always be associated with power, for if the startling or ludicrous is weakly expressed it cannot be… … physical, than of the hqff. Stephen s Ch^I sublime or beautiful, Wejtifi'm^teir which may be ac¬ counted for by the force with which the exception to any given rule, the alienation from any expected course of action, arrests the attention by reason of their rarity; and much of the
Christian art and symbolism · Church architecture · Church decoration and ornament
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