The Commonwealth of Art: A Lecture Delivered in the Whittall Pavilion of the Library of Congress, April 25, 1949 |
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... masters would appear as different but necessary parts of a meaningful and well - organized whole . Alas , we hope in vain . So far , the systems of aesthetical thinking , from the times of Confucius and Plato down to the twentieth ...
... masters would appear as different but necessary parts of a meaningful and well - organized whole . Alas , we hope in vain . So far , the systems of aesthetical thinking , from the times of Confucius and Plato down to the twentieth ...
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... masters hate the display of emotion and ignore or temper down all vehement passion . Not long before 400 B. C. , Soc- rates marked the end of such a frigid age when he forced some sculptors in Athens to admit that statues , as the ...
... masters hate the display of emotion and ignore or temper down all vehement passion . Not long before 400 B. C. , Soc- rates marked the end of such a frigid age when he forced some sculptors in Athens to admit that statues , as the ...
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... masters produce can be extremely beautiful . But their beauty is not the kind that stems from the elimina- tion of individual flaws and the perfection of typical patterns . And it is a beauty ruthlessly sacrificed when it threatens con ...
... masters produce can be extremely beautiful . But their beauty is not the kind that stems from the elimina- tion of individual flaws and the perfection of typical patterns . And it is a beauty ruthlessly sacrificed when it threatens con ...
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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