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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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Granada (xiv Century). Patio de la Albercain the Alhambra. Arabian world grow motionless together, exactly at themoment when the Occidental peoples are emergingfrom the collective rhythms. It is in the hope of adiscovery half seen that men gain the power theyexpress in their work, and from this moment on themosque builders begin to lose courage.
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Mosque of the Aljaferia, detail. (Museum of Saragossa.) ISLAM 247 If the desert reveals to men the unity of mind, it isalso responsible for the minds forgetting the few formsthat are presented. From the desert came the antisocialand anticivilizing conception of the two irreconcilableworlds of the immaterial soul and the material body.After the death of a people that has failed to discoverand to express its accord with the external universe,there remains nothing of that people, however greatits courage; the spirit which men follow is that whichknows how to animate with its life the forms of thatuniverse. It is the rocks, the water, and the treeswhich, through the spirit of the Greeks, made theOccident fertile. Every time that history hesitates,we look to the pediments of the temples where menrecognize themselves in the gods. Ill The Arab, it is true, never compels the artist to re-frain entirely from representing animate life, andsometimes it trembles furtively on the walls of thepalac

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