The Psychology of BeautyHoughton, Mifflin, 1905 - 286 էջ |
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... ideal of the impressionist is to bring a new piece of literature into being in some exquisitely happy char- acterization , to create a lyric of criticism out of the unique pleasure of an æsthetic hour . The strong- hold of the scientist ...
... ideal of the impressionist is to bring a new piece of literature into being in some exquisitely happy char- acterization , to create a lyric of criticism out of the unique pleasure of an æsthetic hour . The strong- hold of the scientist ...
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... ideal one ; and we may turn back , in our search for it , to a closer view of those which his was to supersede . Impressionism , however , is at once out of the running ; it has always vigorously repu- diated the notion of the standard ...
... ideal one ; and we may turn back , in our search for it , to a closer view of those which his was to supersede . Impressionism , however , is at once out of the running ; it has always vigorously repu- diated the notion of the standard ...
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... ideal end ; and a necessary succession has no end in itself . The " type , " in this sense , is perfectly hollow . To say that the modern chrysanthemum is better than that of our forbears because it is more chrysanthemum - like is true ...
... ideal end ; and a necessary succession has no end in itself . The " type , " in this sense , is perfectly hollow . To say that the modern chrysanthemum is better than that of our forbears because it is more chrysanthemum - like is true ...
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... ideal , not a pro- duct , and , from this point of view , is related not at all to the other terms of a succession , its causes and its effects , but only to the abstract principles of that beauty at which it aims . Strangely enough ...
... ideal , not a pro- duct , and , from this point of view , is related not at all to the other terms of a succession , its causes and its effects , but only to the abstract principles of that beauty at which it aims . Strangely enough ...
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... ideal of beauty must wear the manacles of space and time , that the metamorphoses of taste preclude the notion of an objective beauty ? And if this is true , are we not thrown back again on questions of genesis and development , and a ...
... ideal of beauty must wear the manacles of space and time , that the metamorphoses of taste preclude the notion of an objective beauty ? And if this is true , are we not thrown back again on questions of genesis and development , and a ...
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action aesthetic æsthetic emotion æsthetic experience æsthetic feeling æsthetic pleasure analysis Aristotle attention attitude balance basilar membrane beauty of literature belongs centre clear color combination complementary color complete composition consciousness consonance criticism definition of beauty demands drama ecstasy effect elements equilibrium essential excitement explanation expression fact favorable stimulation felt function Giorgione give given harmony Hegel idea ideal imitation Katharsis less literary logical Madame Guyon Madonna means Meister Eckhart melody ment minor second moral motor impulses movement Nature of Beauty ness organism perfect perfect moment personality physiological picture pity and fear play possible principle psychological PSYCHOLOGY OF BEAUTY psychophysical pyramid question relation religious ecstasy Rembrandt reproduction rhythm rhythmical self-completeness sensations sense Sistine Madonna suggestion symmetry tendency theory thought tion tonality tone tragedy tragic true unity vista visual form vivid whole words
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Էջ 232 - Tragedy, then, is an imitation of an action that is serious, complete, and of a certain magnitude; in language embellished with each kind of artistic ornament, the several kinds being found in separate parts of the play; in the form of action, not of narrative ; through pity and fear effecting the proper purgation of these emotions.
Էջ 254 - Spirit overhead will look humanely malign, and cast an oblique light on them, followed by volleys of silvery laughter.
Էջ 233 - ... to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated. Nor is Nature wanting in her own effects to make good his assertion: for so in physic things of melancholic hue and quality are used against melancholy, sour against sour, salt to remove salt humours.
Էջ 63 - And up and down, and in and out, He turned; but still the pigtail stout Hung steadily behind him. And though his efforts never slack, And though he twist, and...
Էջ 226 - NEVER the time and the place And the loved one all together ! This path— how soft to pace ! This May — what magic weather ! Where is the loved one's face? In a dream that loved one's face meets mine, But the house is narrow, the place is bleak Where, outside, rain and wind combine With a furtive ear, if I strive to speak, With a hostile eye at my flushing...
Էջ 254 - Men's future upon earth does not attract it; their honesty and shapeliness in the present does; and whenever they wax out of proportion, overblown, affected, pretentious, bombastical, hypocritical, pedantic, fantastically delicate; whenever it sees them selfdeceived or hoodwinked, given to run riot in idolatries, drifting into vanities, congregating in absurdities, planning shortsightedly, plotting dementedly...
Էջ 212 - The one word for the one thing, the one thought, amid the multitude of words, terms, that might just do: the problem of style was there!— the unique word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, essay, or song, absolutely proper to the single mental presentation or vision within.
Էջ 61 - MY HEART aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk...
Էջ 211 - All the laws of good writing aim at a similar unity or identity of the mind in all the processes by which the word . is associated to its import. The term is right, and has its essential beauty, when it becomes, in a manner, what it signifies, as with the names of simple sensations.
Էջ 233 - TRAGEDY, as it was anciently composed, hath been ever held the gravest, moralest, and most profitable of all other poems ; therefore said by Aristotle to be of power, by raising pity and fear, or terror, to purge the mind of those and such like passions, that is, to temper and reduce them to just measure with a kind of delight, stirred up by reading or seeing those passions well imitated.