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Dr. Janson has wisely given added emphasis to forms of art not so well known to the young student and the general reader. He relates familiar to unfamiliar forms, and modern to "traditional." The book thus has a dynam-ic forward surge; its vividness comes from the focus on successive objects as they stream by, so that our under-standing of the history of the arts comes from the paint-ings, the sculptures, the architectural structures them-selves and not from mere data about them. Every object or building is placed in a setting of time, environ-ment, culture, and the total œuvre of the individual artist or builder. Each one is made to leave the imprint of its qualities upon us.

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