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Art: Its Laws, and the Reason for Them: Collected, Considered and Arranged: For General and Educational Purposes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover
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Excerpt from Art: Its Laws, and the Reason for Them: Collected, Considered and Arranged<br/><br/>Of course, the writer of this volume does not claim to have discovered any new principle of Art, but simply to have brought within the reach of the common intellect truths ordinarily unobserved by the mass, ever availing himself of the better knowledge of those who have written upon Art whenever he thought it could be appropriated to the most complete illustra tion of the subject. He has taken nothing, however, upon mere report, but only after a critical examination of the evi dence to its truth and the exercise of his own judgment. There was ample room and demand for thought and originality in thus attempting to popularize the great leading ideas of Art, divesting them of technical obscurities, and rendering them intelligible to others than practical artists. It will be seen that a much greater space has apparently been given to painting than to sculpture and architecture 5 but it is only seemingly so, for, being the first to be discussed, principles are evolved equally affecting all the elegant arts, and a repetition was to be studiously avoided in a work of this description; and, for the same reason, only those forms of architecture have been considered that developed some new principle, or exhibited some new feature in good taste and of practical importance.
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Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. This book explores the ideas behind our cultural perception of beauty and the different ways it has been epitomized over time. It examines the ancient Greek concept of beauty as the ideal representation of human form and explores the theory that through evolution, universally appealing features have been selected for as being aesthetically most pleasing. The author contrasts this with modern understandings of physical beauty, drawing examples from across the globe to illustrate how beauty standards are ever evolving and culturally dependent. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item. Seller Inventory # 9781330302736_0
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