Ancient art and ritual

First published in 1913.. Printed in Great Britain.

1 Art and ritual. 2 Primitive ritual: pantomimic dances. 3 Periodic ceremonies: The spring festival. 4 The primitive spring danceor dithytamb, in Greece. 5 The transition from ritual to art: the dromenon and the drama. 6 Greek sculpture: the panathenaic frieze and the Apollo belvedere. 7 Ritual, art and life

'The object of this book is to show that art and ritual--two divergent developments--have a common root, and that neither can be understood without the other. 'It is at the outset,' says the author, 'one and the same impulse that sends a man to church and to the theatre.''

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