1987, ISBN: 9781130716566

Koln: Michael Werner, 1987. staple-bound wrappers with folded, color image on tissue paper, laid-in., minor rubbing to exterior. lighter area on title-page where insert rested for 25 year… Altro …

Koln: Michael Werner, 1987. staple-bound wrappers with folded, color image on tissue paper, laid-in., minor rubbing to exterior. lighter area on title-page where insert rested for 25 years. no other flaws, clean, no writing or markings.; text in german with english version at back. no isbn. unpaginated. eight b/w illustrations. this is one of 600 unnumbered copies printed.. First Edition - Limited. Soft Cover. Near Fine. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Exhibition Catalogue., Michael Werner, 1987, RareBooksClub.com. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 364 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.8in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 Excerpt: . . . understand certain causes of effect in composition now to be considered. Every perception received, and every conception realized, entailing some amount of waste, --or, as Liebig would say, some change of matter in the brain; and the efficiency of the faculties subject to this waste being thereby temporarily, though often but momentarily, diminished, the resulting partial inability must affect the acts of perception and conception that immediately succeed. And hence we may expect that the vividness with which images are realized will, in many cases, depend on the order of their presentation; even when one order is as convenient to the understanding as the other. There are sundry facts which alike illustrate this, and are explained by it. Climax is one of them. The marked effect obtained by placing last the most striking of any series of images, and the weakness--often the ludicrous weakness--produced by reversing this arrangement, depends on the general law indicated. As immediately after looking at the sun we cannot perceive the light of a fire, while by looking at the fire first and the sun afterwards we can perceive both; so, after receiving a brilliant, or weighty, or terrible thought, we cannot appreciate a less brilliant, less weighty, or less terrible one, while, by reversing the order, we can appreciate each. In Antithesis, again, we may recognize the same general truth. The opposition of two thoughts that are the reverse of each other in some prominent trait, insures an impressive effect and does this by giving a momentary relaxation to the faculties addressed. If, after a series of images of an ordinary character, appealing in a moderate degree to the sentiment of reverence, or approbation, or beauty, the mind has presented to it a very insignifica. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub.com<