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The application of ornament (1888)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 160

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The instinct of art is rather to lose an out-line, more or less, in places, and not to insistupon it unless its value is sufficient to justifythe risk its use entails. The only rule whichcan be laid down as to the use of outline, is soextremely simple as not altogether to satisfythe pedantic mind :… … Pmot«-Tiht, byJ.AkMm.n,6,I)u«enS<iU4ro.Wf:. Some Superstitions. 69 The insistance upon outline for the sake ofoutline, as though decoration were not decora-tion without this official stamp of pedantry,this trade mark of the decorating shop, ispure nonsense. The truth is, outline is frequently…

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