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Alarms and Discursions : Explorations of Art, Society, and the Human Condition
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" Alone at some distance from the wasting walls of a disused abbey I found half sunken in the grass the grey and goggle-eyed visage of one of those graven monsters that made the ornamental water-spouts in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages. It lay there, scoured ancient rains or striped recent fungus, but still looking like the head of some huge dragon slain a primeval hero. And as I looked at it, I thought of the meaning of the grotesque, and passed into some symbolic reverie of the three great stages of art..."
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- ISBN-13: 9791041945368
- ISBN-10: 9791041945368
- Publisher: Culturea
- Publish Date: February 2023
- Dimensions: 8.27 x 5.83 x 0.24 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.31 pounds
- Page Count: 100
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