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An artist's letters from Japan (1897)

La Farge, John, 1835-1910 · New York, The Century co. · leaf 156

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tern, or what might be called the masses, of the design.A horse is tied to a tree,— a horse of Japan,— and amonkey slides down the trunk and clutches at the halterthat prevents escape. I need not ask you to admire thestealthy and yet confident step of the ape, and the motionsand repugnance and… … PAINTING BY CHIN-NAN-PIN. decorative points are not those I wish to refer to just now.What I wish to indicate now is that this subject, whichmight have suited a Dutchman for reaHsm and for itschoice of the accidental, will mean, if you wish to see it,the natural resistance and struggle of the…

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