Arbor vitae : a book on the nature & development of imaginative design for the use of teachers, handicraftsmen & others (1910)
Blount, Godfrey · London : A.C. Fifield · leaf 229
ught into play, there isalways the implied suggestion that the artist has no interest in the 224 ARBOR ViTJE. matter, while if he prefers to draw a more or less geometrical formwith his own hand, we must believe that he means something byit, or at any rate that he feels that the rest of his design… … Fig. 37.—Types of Borders. symbols are rigid, artistic ones free. What is full of life is a symbolof Life, says Sir George Birdwood. That is the law of the true andartistic symbol. Its business is to enlighten, not to enslave; and itis therefore distinct from the ecclesiastical symbol, which…
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