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Six lectures on architecture (1917)

Cram, Ralph Adams, 1863-1942, Hastings, Thomas, 1860-1929, Bragdon, Claude Fayette, 1866-1946 · Chicago, Ill., Pub. for the Art Institute of Chicago by the University of Chicago Press · leaf 98

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no steps have been taken towardrestoring that unity again. Art today is in thecondition of Germany after the break-up of theEmpire, a hundred little piffling states, noneknowing where it was or what it existed for, andwith no co-ordination and no sense of unity. Asthere, at times, through the whim… … CULMINATION OF GOTHIC ART genius who spreads a temporary glory on hislittle art, as Wagner or Browning or Richardsonor St. Gaudens or Sargent; but each passes, andhis art returns again to its normal level ofmediocrity and general aimlessness. Is there any possibility of recovery, of thefinding…

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