Présentation de l'éditeur
Pbesons of various interests have asked me to recommend a work on Architecture as an A rt. There was nothing that exactly met their requirements, and this suggested the idea of writing something myself. Although some of these pages are primarily for students of architecture, I hope the general public may find matter of interest in the book. I ts first concrete form was a course of lectures I delivered at Cornell University, between the years 1897 and 1900. The present Discussion of Composition is divided into six parts. The first treats the general laws of character in art; the second, general technical laws; the last four have to do with applications, three and five being, respectively, theoretical discussions of decoration and plan, four and six containing practical suggestions in the same subjects. I cannot claim that much of this is my own conception, for Composition is the practice of A rt, and Art is as old as Humanity. Where the source of the following pages is itself a written page I have referred the reader to the earlier writer (the latter may, in turn, direct him to a yet earlier origin). Some of these are Ruskin, Tolstoi, G. Baldwin Brown, Vio Uet le Due, Mayeux, Miintz, Magne, Louis
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