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Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1881 Excerpt: ...for certain physical needs, but as a worthy manifestation of mental functions. To illustrate: It is proper and right that, in a ship, which is not a work of fine art, but one supplying a temporary necessity, every nook and corner should be utilized. A locker may be placed under the stairs, over a berth, or in any convenient place in the saloon; we may crowd the passages and stairways into spaces limited by the necessities of the passengers and the crew. In a gentleman's dwelling such a proceeding would be vulgar; for this is not a shelter merely, but a residence. A certain liberality of space and a dignified order of things forbids as an art necessity the use of space for two or more purposes. Otherwise we fail to express the proper functions of the part we are treating. There is also another fundamental principle of art work. We should not resort to mechanical expedients, no matter how sound in themselves, because they are desirable only on economical grounds, if they are lacking in, or detrimental to, clear art expression. If an acre of ground is to be protected from the weather to make the space available for a rolling-mill, for a car-house, or for a depot of lumber, and this can be economically and well done by an iron truss from wall to wall, it is the tiling to be done; but sucli an expedient would not conduce to art expression in a church, a theatre, or a legislative chamber any more than the hide of an animal would furnish a substitute for a properly organized garment. We are not supposed in a monument to grudge the space or the material that is needed to show that mechanical work is well and easily done, the result of which is repose. We should not resort to a trick in the matter of construction, for to the educated mind it must seem unworthy of th...
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- PublisherRareBooksClub.com
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1153772655
- ISBN 13 9781153772655
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages100
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