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History of art (1921)

Faure, Elie, 1873-1937, Pach, Walter, 1883-1958 · New York and London : Harper & brothers · leaf 212

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re-flected the forests and the snows in the shadowy massesof that southern ocean in which no human face had everseen its image. A great civilization, a great art, couldand should have been born there. The mats woven of THE TROPICS 185 phormium, hanging at the doors of the huts, shonewith burning… … Photo by Charles Sheeler North America. Horsemen, painting on hide.(Museum of the University of Pennsylvania.) palisades for defense, were works of art, deeply carved with horrible figures which were tattooed like the people themselves and framed in prodigious series of curved lines, of interwoven…

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