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The claims of decorative art (1892)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London, Lawrence and Bullen · leaf 85

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erthrow that false, false notion that workis degrading, and that it must be the object and mark of all superiorpersons to shift the burden of all manual and useful labour on tothe shoulders of a class ; that it is at all a creditable thing to be of no occupation, or that impossible being an… … THE PROSPECTS OF ART UNDER SOCIALISM T?OR the sake of clearness I will commit myself to a definition :firstly of art, which, so far as its meaning can be packed upinto the portmanteau of a sentence, might be described as a formof vital force applied to the expression of Beauty. This will atany rate…

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