Human Potentialities1958 |
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Page 141
... century in many points , both in Europe and in Amer- ica . Indeed , if we may accept the luminous pages of Van Wyck Brooks as they open for us the story of early nineteenth - century American life in the age of Jefferson and Irving , we ...
... century in many points , both in Europe and in Amer- ica . Indeed , if we may accept the luminous pages of Van Wyck Brooks as they open for us the story of early nineteenth - century American life in the age of Jefferson and Irving , we ...
Page 144
... century onward . But with respect to creativeness in the arts we see not only a broad trend over centuries , as revealed in the sciences , but also a series of spasms of creativeness , as in the painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth ...
... century onward . But with respect to creativeness in the arts we see not only a broad trend over centuries , as revealed in the sciences , but also a series of spasms of creativeness , as in the painting of the fifteenth and sixteenth ...
Page 152
... century had painted in the flat . Gently folded hands , turn- ing necks , and sparkling eyes led on past 1400 to arms which actually reached toward you out of the canvas , shadows which cut across rising slopes , divine and human forms ...
... century had painted in the flat . Gently folded hands , turn- ing necks , and sparkling eyes led on past 1400 to arms which actually reached toward you out of the canvas , shadows which cut across rising slopes , divine and human forms ...
Contents
Our Twentiethcentury Vantage Point | 3 |
The Invention of Culture | 47 |
How We Come to Want What We Want | 60 |
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