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The claims of decorative art (1892)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 50

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spirit such a being) : Thegenius of modern painting would appear amidst the ruins andrelics of ancient art attired in the last Paris fashion, leaning upona photographic camera, with canvas and palette set, and looking inher paint-box for an idea. Instead of Amorini should flit aroundher the bats… … ON THE STRUCTURE AND EVOLUTION OFDECORATIVE PATTERN TV/TAN might be distinguished from other animals by hispronounced love of ornament alone, or at least by thecapacity for producing it. Evidences of the impulse to ornamentare found mixed up with his earliest traces on the earth, and someof his…

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