Inside Out Library · Explore

The claims of decorative art (1892)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 119

An illustration from The claims of decorative art, 1892, leaf 119
weconsider it and its beautiful results as the highest outcome of life,and as necessarily dependent upon the character, ideals, and con-ditions of that life. If the latter, then it may be worth while totake such steps as may be within our power and mental vision toco-operate towards the realisation… … THE IMPORTANCE OF THE APPLIED ARTS, ANDTHEIR RELATION TO COMMON LIFE IX/TAN in a natural and primitive condition does not begin tothink of art until his physical wants are satisfied, since artis, in its true sense, after all only a spontaneous manifestation ofmental life in form, colour, or…

Decoration and ornament · Art · Decorative arts

Internet Archive · OCAD University Library · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.

More pictures from The claims of decorative art

More like this