Modern civic art; or, The city made beautiful (1918)
Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917 · New York, Putnam · leaf 161
sculptor charged his pupil with having richlyornamented a statue because he knew not how tomake it beautiful. Beauty is dependent on a fine-ness of line, a chastity of form, the lack of which canbe atoned for by no ornament that is superimposed, 122 flDofcern Civic art. by no added decoration. And… … CHAPTER VII.ARCHITECTURE IN THE BUSINESS DISTRICT. WE have seen that a street which is badlyplanned can look for little stateliness oreven beauty, however meritorious isthe construction along its borders or the decorationheaped upon it. Conversely, we have seen that thebest planned street requires,…
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