The Commonwealth of Art: A Lecture Delivered in the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, April 25, 1949 |
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... definite age , indeed , at a definite moment and in a definite mood under definite atmos- pheric conditions . A phenomenon like shadow is no longer accidental but on the contrary essential . In the Baroque , even a building is meant to ...
... definite age , indeed , at a definite moment and in a definite mood under definite atmos- pheric conditions . A phenomenon like shadow is no longer accidental but on the contrary essential . In the Baroque , even a building is meant to ...
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aesthetical all-valid alternation of warmer architecture ART A LECTURE attitude Baroque beauty building call the Greater ceaseless alternation CHARLES ELSON MEMORIAL cold colder colors COMMONWEALTH OF ART conception cool cooler artist cooler phase cooler side CURT SACHS define definite Doric temple dualism dynamic ELSON MEMORIAL FUND emotion ever-changing evolution extremes eyes ferent filtering and sublimation Flamboyant flaws fourteenth century frigid full hundred Gothic Greater Renaissance Greater Romanticism Greece Hellen historian Hogarth hotter phase indi individual Italian KOHLER ART LIBRARY larger cycles Later Ages LECTURE DELIVERED LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LOUIS CHARLES ELSON man's march of art masters meant Michelangelo Middle Ages musician natural temperature novel painter painting percep Periclean periods philosopher Plato poetry poets preponderantly reversals Revival right foot Romanesque shadow similar simile soulless spirit static steady alternation stress strife for types style symmetrical tastes three-dimensional space tion trend various arts visual warm word