Chapter IV.-Of Imagination Contemplative.
John Ruskin
§1.
Imagination contemplative is not part of the essence, but only a habit or mode of the faculty.
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§2.
The ambiguity of conception.
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§3.
Is not in itself capable of adding to the charm of fair things.
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§4.
But gives to the imagination its regardant power over them.
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§5.
The third office of fancy distinguished from imagination contemplative.
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§6.
Various instances.
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§7.
Morbid or nervous fancy.
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§8.
The action of contemplative imagination is not to be expressed by art.
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§9.
Except under narrow limits.—1st. Abstract rendering of form without color.
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§10.
Of color without form.
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§11.
Or of both without texture.
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§12.
Abstraction or typical representation of animal form.
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§13.
Either when it is symbolically used.
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§14.
Or in architectural decoration.
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§15.
Exception in delicate and superimposed ornament.
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§16.
Abstraction necessary from imperfection of materials.
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§17.
Abstractions of things capable of varied accident are not imaginative.
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§18.
Yet sometimes valuable.
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§19.
Exaggeration. Its laws and limits. First, in scale of representation.
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§20.
Secondly, of things capable of variety of scale.
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§21.
Thirdly, necessary in expression of characteristic features on diminished scale.
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§22.
Recapitulation.
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