Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-1927, Balch, Eugenia Hargous (Macfarlane), Mrs., [from old catalog] joint author · Philadelphia, Allen, Lane and Scott · leaf 140
ly use straight lines. In Egyptianart the architecture is generally rectangular: thesculpture, on the contrary, is curvilinear. Some ofthe paintings have curved lines but most of them tendto straight fines. They have a strongly convention-alized decorative rigidity and it is not impossible thatthis… … Fig. 19. Drawing of grizzly bear on skin, Alaska. 136 ART AND MAN. It is much like Egyptian art in those respects. A gooddeal of it is decorative, and in its later phases some ofit is highly colored. The early art of South andEast Asia appears to have been a decorative recti-linear art.…
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