Abstract

Art

The article presents information on art. The suggested general critical principle to which author Geoffrey Scott would have us turn in our estimate of architectural values is one which has been brought into prominence of late years by the German aesthetician, Theodor Lipps. Having had its vogue in the land of its birth, it Is now spreading its influence among those of Anglo-Saxon mode of thought, mainly through the writings of the versatile author Vernon Lee. It is founded upon what Lipps called the principle of Einfuhlung. He would have one believe, as painter Thomas Sully puts it, that "the free play of a life-giving fancy constitutes a vital element in all aesthetic contemplation"; that "this vitalizing activity of the fancy is the essential element of our aesthetic enjoyment of material objects."