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Art and man, comparative art studies (1918)

Balch, Edwin Swift, 1856-, Balch, Eugenia Macfarlane · Philadelphia, Allen · leaf 140

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rally use straight hues. In Egyptianart the architecture is generally rectangular: thesculpture, on the contrary, is curvihnear. Some ofthe paintings have curved lines but most of them tendto straight lines. They have a strongly convention-ahzed decorative rigidity and it is not impossible thatthis… … IG. 19. Drawing of giizzly bear on skin, Alaska. 136 ART AND ^FAN. 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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