. 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 . e require-ment of art that Iaricty should be kept subordinate tounity and comparison. At the same time, alteration thusinterpreted evidently requires and manifests brain-work;and it is by the brain-work involved as much asby conformity to aesthetic laws, that the world in gen-eral measures artistic achievement. For instance inthe Public Library, Fig. 61, page 193, can any onefail to recognize how much mo


. 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 . e require-ment of art that Iaricty should be kept subordinate tounity and comparison. At the same time, alteration thusinterpreted evidently requires and manifests brain-work;and it is by the brain-work involved as much asby conformity to aesthetic laws, that the world in gen-eral measures artistic achievement. For instance inthe Public Library, Fig. 61, page 193, can any onefail to recognize how much more thought it wouldhave required to produce an equally effective entranceby having the same general shapes there as in the window-caps at its side, yet altered; or to produce an equallysuccessful side for the practical needs of a library, byhaving the same general shapes there as over the open-ings at the entrance ? It is proper to say, therefore, thatthe Shadyside Presbyterian Church, by the same archi-tects. Fig. 34, page 91, is superior, artistically, to thisLibrary, for one reason, because it manifests more brain-work. Alteration and repetition used conjointly in such ways Ill r ^). ^ fr iTj Li^^^ r r ^ r


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