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Art in Great Britain and Ireland (1909)

Armstrong, Walter, Sir, 1850-1918 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 36

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inquisitive.His desire was not for knowledge, butfor creation. He wished to producerather than to reproduce. In a word, hewas synthetic rather than analytic. Thepossibility has often been suggested, orrather it inevitably suggests itself, thatthe character of the Iberian races, partlydispossessed… … ART IN GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND to its last and most ambitious achievements, we cannot believe thatthe example of an inferior race had very much effect upon it. While Celtic art was being lost in Great Britain under the stressof the Roman Conquest, it was holding the even tenor of its way…

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