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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: THE GREEK EXPRESSION THE UNDERLYING CONCEPTION. THE DORIC ALTHOUGH the Egyptian in his temple building obeyed the aesthetic laws of unity and purpose, he did not choose to operate under the law of measure. It may be doubted if he had knowledge of the law. There was little in his nature to demand a formulation of it, for in everything he went to excess, even in his philosophy of immortality and in his efforts to contravene the power of death. From an alien standpoint, in delineating or, fabricating his gods, he left the realm of fancy and invaded the domain of fantasy; and that means excess. In the architecture of the pre-Hellenic civilization of the yEgean, especially in the Cretan development, there were forms functioning structurally which appear to have met certain aesthetic demands as well, though proportion, as conceived by the Greeks, seemingly did not enter into the scheme; nor was proportion fundamental in the art of the East or in any art which could have influenced Greek idealism. Itwas the Greek who first set up the standard of measure in life and conduct and applied the principle in the development of his art. It were better to say that the Greek lived the principle in his art, for art and life with him were one and the same; he thought and built and wrought in terms of the ideal. When an obstacle was to be overcome, the Greek met it with just the force necessary and with no wasted effort; because of the fineness of his feeling for expression that was the impression he conveyed. When he encountered that which was pregnant with the possibilities of ugliness, he opposed a resistance which seemed inevitably to express itself in a line of beauty, a line which imparted a feeling of serenity and poise and emotional restraint that was an inspiration to the beholder. He di...


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  • ISBN-13: 9781458925589
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 36
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1458925587
  • Publisher Date: 01 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 82 gr


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