The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 07. Коллектив авторов

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СКАЧАТЬ with the artistic form. A meaning such as this, the art of architecture is able to mold into its material and its forms with more or less success, according as the determinate nature of the content which it seeks to embody is more significant or more trivial, more concrete or more abstract, more deeply rooted within its inner being or more dim and superficial. Indeed, it may even advance so far as to endeavor to create for such meaning an adequate artistic expression with its material and forms, but in such an attempt it has already overstepped the bounds of its own sphere, and inclines towards sculpture, the higher phase of art. For the limit of architecture lies precisely in this, that it refers to the spiritual as an internal essence in contrast with the external forms of its art, and thus whatever spirit and soul are possessed it must point to as something other than itself.

      SCULPTURE

      Architecture, however, has purified the inorganic external world, has given it symmetric order, has impressed upon it the seal of mind, and the temple of the God, the house of his community, stands ready. Into this temple now enters the God himself. The lightning-flash of individuality strikes the inert mass, permeates it, and a form no longer merely symmetrical, but infinite and spiritual, concentrates and molds its adequate bodily shape. This is the task of sculpture. Inasmuch as in it the inner spiritual element, which architecture can no more than hint at, completely abides with the sensuous form and its external matter, and as both sides are so merged into each other that neither predominates, sculpture has the classical

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      Or in Goethe:

      "Zuschlagen kann die Masse,

      Da ist sie respektabel;

      Urteilen gelingt ihr miserabel."

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Permission Macmillan and Co., New York, and George Bell & Sons, Ltd., London.

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Or in Goethe:

"Zuschlagen kann die Masse,Da ist sie respektabel;Urteilen gelingt ihr miserabel."

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