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expressed my opinion concerning kinds, strength, and results of this resistance. Here I want only remark that my regarding the importance of said resistance has decisively influenced the method of interpretation, which is used in my dictionary, and stimulated the search and demonstration of limiting historic conditions: technological, economic, ideological, as well as belonging to artistic routine, i.e. connected with respected and/or habitual artistic traditions and customs. The last remark is concerning the use of word «style». Since given book has a structure of dictionary and can be used as a reference edition, this word are applied here in usual sense of concrete art-historical notion, lest such a reader, whose interest in this book may be limited with one or two entries, should be confused. After all the main thing is to clear up notions; as for meaning of words, it determines itself on the basis of common consent, which does not exist now in questions of essence, role and meaning of style. August 25, 2002
and approach based on characterization of vision (developed by the same Wiillflin later) don't contradict each other and may be linked together in one method of art-historical interpretation. With particular completeness and immediateness the character of aforesaid motor-muscular aesthetic archetypes tells, as it seems me, on tectonic aspect of image and first of all on visual representation of relationships between the heaviness and the force overcoming it. That's why when analyzing different monuments of art and analytically characterizing their types I paid special attention to the tectonics. However I consider it necessary to underline the following. When working on matters of ancient Greek art, when trying to reveal aesthetic archetypes inherent in them I , at the same time, have guided myself with conviction that no suprahistorical entities whatever, aesthetic archetypes included, can actualize themselves in real history absolutely freely, without colliding with more or less effective resistance of historical reality's material.Above I have