The Graphic Arts
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9780217797931
Paperback|9780217797931
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER III. DRAWING FOR AESTHETIC PLEASURE. THE kind of drawing practised by artists of all kinds has for its chief purpose the production of aesthetic pleasure, ? jijjleasure in which there are the most various degrees of dignity and nobleness, a pleasure which may elevate and strengthen our nature, or corrupt it like a vicious indulgence. The variety of the effects produced in us by the various kinds and degrees of aesthetic pleasure is enough to prevent any careful thinker from extolling or condemning it absolutely. We ourselves live in an age when a remarkable movement is taking place in the Anglo-Saxon peoples which looks like the awakening of dormant aesthetic instincts. Those of us who have attained middle age were born in a time when beauty was not a subject of any interest to the mass of Englishmen and Americans, and we have witnessed a gradual change in the Anglo- Saxon spirit which is leading it not only towards beauty, but towards a new kind of reasoning about the fitness of things dictated by aesthetic considerations far more subtle and profound than the simple question as to whether an object is beautiful or ugly by itself. Our fathers, the Englishmen of the last generation, knew as well as we do that there are beautiful things in the world ? they knew that the best Greek statues and the best Italian pictures were beautiful things which might reasonably be desired by rich men like the Duke of Devonshire, but they did not attempt to bring the common things around them into harmony with aesthetic law. In the present generation very many of us are really trying to do this, trying to arrange the externaland visible things of life in such a manner as not to violate the aesthetic sense of suitableness. Many things which our fathers did we feel to be wrong and out...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217797931 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217797938 |
| Weight | 1.20 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.83 In |
| List Price | $25.04 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 372 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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