Fry, Roger Eliot, 1866-1934 · London : Chatto & Windus · leaf 80
even so the appeal to vision was rather by way ofcorrecting and revising accepted conceptual images than as thefoundation of a work of art. The art of China, and still more ofJapan, has been distinctly more perceptual. Indeed, the Japanesedrawings of birds and animals approach more nearly than… … Fig. 8. 64 VISION AND DESIGN Like Japanese drawings, they show an alertness to accept the sil-houette as a single whole instead of reconstructing it from separatelyapprehended parts. It is partly due to Japanese influence that ourown Impressionists have made an attempt to get back to that…
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