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Vision and design (1920)

Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 77

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rt of likeness to appearance. Mr. Balfour, in hispreface to Miss Tongues book, notices briefly some of these strikingcharacteristics of the Bushman drawings. He says :— The paintings are remarkable not only for the realism exhibitedby so many, but also for a freedom from the limitation to… … THE ART OF THE BUSHMEN 6i and an appreciation even of the rudiments of perspective is occasion-ally to be noted, though only in a crude and uncertain form. Thepractice of endeavouring to represent more than could be seen atone time, a habit so characteristic of the art of primitive peoples asalso…

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