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 37
racteristic of strong feeling as they are, we mustlook askance on the examples of them in our possession. Theyrepresent, as it were, the North Pole of Art, an excess of abstractionwith a minimum of fact. We must be careful to avoid the frost ofits fascination. It has no direct outlet, or further… … WHEN Ariadne gave Theseus a clue to escape the confusionof the Cretan labyrinth, the direction it took exactlyreproduced the windings of the maze and solved the deadlyriddle of its intricacy. The myth had intense significance for theGreek, and wide influence on his art; and with or without…
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