The Sense of Beauty: Being the Outlines of Aesthetic Theory Papyras Classics

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Chapter 3

Part III. — Form

§ 19. There is a beauty of form 82

§ 20. Physiology of the perception of form 85

§ 21. Values of geometrical figures 88

§ 22. Symmetry 91

§ 23. Form the unity of a manifold 95

§ 24. Multiplicity in uniformity 97

§ 25. Example of the stars 100

§ 26. Defects of pure multiplicity 106

§ 27. Aesthetics of democracy 110

§ 28. Values of types and values of examples 112

§ 29. Origin of types 116

§ 30. The average modified in the direction of pleasure 121

§ 31. Are all things beautiful? 126

§ 32. Effects of indeterminate form 131

§ 33. Example of landscape 133

§ 34. Extensions to objects usually not regarded aesthetically 138

§ 35. Further dangers of indeterminateness 142

§ 36. The illusion of infinite perfection 146

§ 37. Organized nature the source of apperceptive forms 152

§ 38. Utility the principle of organization in nature 155

§ 39. The relation of utility to beauty 157

§ 40. Utility the principle of organization in the arts 160

§ 41. Form and adventitious ornament 163

§ 42. Syntactical form 167

§ 42. Literary form. The plot 171

§ 44. Character as an aesthetic form 174

§ 45. Ideal characters 176

§ 46. The religious imagination 180

§ 47. Preference is ultimately irrational 185