The Architect & engineer of California and the Pacific Coast (1905)
San Francisco, Calif. : Architect and Engineer Co · leaf 95
on, is characterizedby an early period of strength andfreshness of conception ; an inter-mediary period of refinement anddevelopment of the original idea;and lastly a period of degenera-tion through superfluous andmeaningless elaboration. Reproductions of past forms ofdecorative art, taken from the… … nal, otherwise they assume thatmost frequent and obvious qualityof vulgarity in art—anachronism,.\ shining example of such vulgar-ity is the reproduction of a Ro-man lamp with a modern electriclight taking the place of the oilfiame, or a structure in the formof a torch with imitation candlesstuck…
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