Meaning of lack-life | Babel Free

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Represented in such a way as to show important characteristics, rather than in a realistic or literal manner; stylized; abstract.

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“What influence⟳ the decorative motives of Egypt and Assyria, imported by the Phoenicians, had upon the early artists of Greece, it is again, as yet, very difficult to say⟳, and we have⟳ to glean such scanty information as we can from what exists of archaic Greek art in pre-Phoenician strata, compared with such ancient Phoenician remains as are entirely destitute of any admixture of Greek influence⟳. Such is the surpassing value of these Phoenician shields, the most ancient metal shields yet discovered. They belong⟳ to an epoch when the Greek race⟳ was in its youth, when the springs of its mind⟳ were fresh, when it was most likely to be influenced by external agents, and such objects were the first to introduce⟳ the young and aspiring Greek to the rigid, severe, monotonous, mysterious, and impenetrable forms of Egypt, and to the dreamy, lack-life, symbolic and ideal creations of the Assyrians.”

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