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The claims of decorative art (1892)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 170

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pressive laws, tyrannies, superstitions, ignorance, throughgood report and evil report, has led man out of the primal dark-ness, steadfastly bearing the torch of hope till hope becomes afaith—faith in socialised humanity. If we are working in this spirit we need not trouble about thefate of art,… … IMITATION AND EXPRESSION IN ART I O any one who has put his head beneath the magic cloth ofthe photographer, and has seen, focussed on the glassscreen, a beautiful pre - Raphaelite miniature of nature, thethought must have occurred—if the secret of retaining coloursas well as forms in chiaroscuro…

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