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van Doren, Mark | February 11, 1925 issue

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The article presents information about the book "The Genius of Style," by W.C. Brownell. In its more purely abstract portions the book by Brownell is a profound and beautiful disquisition on the principles of art. To Mr. Brownell, as indeed to any person with the slightest philosophic instinct, "the abstract is as actual as the concrete", principles are as real as practice, categories come before cases. He is reluctant to define his subject, partly because he knows it to be a subtle one and partly because he fears to be understood as meaning by it something less than it altogether is.

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GENIUS of Style, The (Book); BROWNELL, W. C.; ART; PHILOSOPHY; AESTHETICS; HUMANITIES
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