The Quarterly Review, Volume 246William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, Sir William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero Baron Ernle John Murray, 1926 |
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... idea ' of beauty , as it exists apart from its physical manifestation . Surely the ' sensational and dramatic ' appeal , the shock motive , which seems to be a principal element of the new architecture , could make little or no appeal ...
... idea ' of beauty , as it exists apart from its physical manifestation . Surely the ' sensational and dramatic ' appeal , the shock motive , which seems to be a principal element of the new architecture , could make little or no appeal ...
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... idea just now of a great commercial building is that of a gigantic cube in which holes are punched at regular intervals for doors and windows . Composition , silhouette , and proportion are disregarded . The great masters of the past ...
... idea just now of a great commercial building is that of a gigantic cube in which holes are punched at regular intervals for doors and windows . Composition , silhouette , and proportion are disregarded . The great masters of the past ...
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... ideas were commonplaces before the war . 6 Efficiency ' was run to a standstill at the Art Workers ' Guild thirty years ago . Mr Robertson writes well on colour and texture , but I can recollect a brilliant paper on texture read by Prof ...
... ideas were commonplaces before the war . 6 Efficiency ' was run to a standstill at the Art Workers ' Guild thirty years ago . Mr Robertson writes well on colour and texture , but I can recollect a brilliant paper on texture read by Prof ...
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... idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot dissociate ourselves from the past , whether we want to or not , and the results of the attempt to do so are seen in the idiotic failures which are now held up to us as ...
... idea is about as valuable as that of Esperanto . We cannot dissociate ourselves from the past , whether we want to or not , and the results of the attempt to do so are seen in the idiotic failures which are now held up to us as ...
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... idea of advance . Each famous master was , he main- tains , complete in himself . Bramante , for example , did not advance on Brunelleschi , but deliberately followed a line of his own , and we must regard them as separate ...
... idea of advance . Each famous master was , he main- tains , complete in himself . Bramante , for example , did not advance on Brunelleschi , but deliberately followed a line of his own , and we must regard them as separate ...
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