estricted in its color, every possible ar-rangement and variation of form must long sinceiiuve been found, used and perfected, every motifexhausted by people who, limited to the use ofIjurnt clay, were also instinctive artists in con-ventional patterns and colors; yet so unfailing isthe response of… … words removes no branch of the family far from theparent stem. The bricks themselves may be thelong Roman form of the Baths and the Pantheon,the smooth gray bricks of China or the great flatslabs of the old city wall of Mandalay, and thejointing may vary from a hair crack to the deepmortar beds…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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