Harrison, Jane Ellen, 1850-1928 / 2008-05-29 00:00:00
EBOOK ANCIENT ART AND RITUAL ***
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_Ancient Art and Ritual_
JANE ELLEN HARRISON
_Geoffrey Cumberlege_
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
LONDON NEW YORK TORONTO
_First published in 1913, and reprinted in 1918 (revised), 1919, 1927,
1935 and 1948_
PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN
PREFATORY NOTE
It may be well at the outset to say clearly what is the aim of the
present volume. The title is _Ancient Art and Ritual_, but the reader
will find in it no general summary or even outline of the facts of
either ancient art or ancient ritual. These facts are easily accessible
in handbooks. The point of my title and the real gist of my argument lie
perhaps in the word "_and_"--that is, in the intimate connection which I
have tried to show exists between ritual and art. This connection has, I
believe, an important bearing on questions vital to-day, as, for
example, the question of the place of art in our modern civilization,
its relation to and its difference from religion and morality; in a
word, on the whole enquiry as to what the nature of art is and how it
can help or hinder spiritual life.
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