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The claims of decorative art (1892)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · Boston and New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Company · leaf 44

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as manifested in art is alwayscharacteristic of the great periods. Nor is it spent in one directiononly, but, like the life-blood, circulates freely through the wholebody of art ; so that the chased pattern upon a piece of armour ora watch-plate, the design of a dress fabric or the woodcut… … SCULPTURE : FROM A DECORATORS POINT OF VIEW A N age in which the ornamental sense in art is so littleunderstood—an age which cares only for superficial pic-turesqueness or photographic naturalism is certainly not favour-able to any high development of sculpture, which in times pasthas been the…

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