. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . -, subordinateness, ^BkM^-^ ■ - M^mw FIG. pages 92, 124. and complement are all given their due proportionment,as in Fig. 68, page 207. Besides imitation, the desire to have a building presentan impressive appearance on the street is accountable forthis accumulation of the chief features on one side orcorner. But many of these buildings are on two streets;and the demands of the ordi
. The Genesis of art-form : an essay in comparative easthetics showing the identity of the sources, methods, and effects of composition in music, poetry, painting, sculpture and architecture . -, subordinateness, ^BkM^-^ ■ - M^mw FIG. pages 92, 124. and complement are all given their due proportionment,as in Fig. 68, page 207. Besides imitation, the desire to have a building presentan impressive appearance on the street is accountable forthis accumulation of the chief features on one side orcorner. But many of these buildings are on two streets;and the demands of the ordinary American church are sodifferent from those of the European that it is strange thatour architects, in the arrangements both of exteriors and. 92 THE GENESIS OF ART-FORM. interiors, have not been forced into more are undoubtedly good reasons why that which,artistically considered, is the most satisfactory form of thecathedral and parish church. Fig. 33, page 90, should notbe adopted by us. Such a building is difificult to con-struct ; and, when constructed, the huge foundationsof the tow^er interfere with both hearing and an adaptation of the form to modern purposes, aswell as an artistic building in all regards, seems to befurnished, so far as one can judge from a photograph,in the Shadyside Presbyterian Church, Fig. 34,page 91. As a rule, however, an American church has two sepa-rate parts—one devoted to worship, and the other, mainly,to the Sunday schools. In some cases, with admirableeffect, a tower has been placed between these parts. Butthe idea thus given form could be further developed, andthe building as a whole made more distinctly a tower could be back from the street, and
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