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The Louisiana Legislature’S Attempts To Preserve Segregation 1954-1960, Jose M. Luzaraga
The Louisiana Legislature’S Attempts To Preserve Segregation 1954-1960, Jose M. Luzaraga
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A Re-Evaluation Of The Aesthetics Of Jean-Baptiste Dubos And Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, John Grayson Nichols
A Re-Evaluation Of The Aesthetics Of Jean-Baptiste Dubos And Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, John Grayson Nichols
Honors Theses
Horace did remark "ut pictura poesis," as in painting so
poetry. But the rest of the pronouncement, rarely quoted, - "one
work seizes your fancy if you stand close to it, another if you
stand at a distance" - refers to how the arts can been viewed
from similar angles, not that the arts are essentially created
with the same purposes. Yet, misreadings of that quotation
began a history of debate over the qualities of painting and
poetry. In particular the eighteenth century became a
battleground over the ut pictura poesis formula. To the modern
reader, this controversy may seem …