scontemporaries. Thus from one print to another one had theopportunity here of studying the varying phasesof Japanese draughtsmanship, from its most deli-cate, sulitle vein in Hokusais Diver to the broadlyexecuted cartoon called The Devil Killer. Oneobserved how the progress of this art was an… … OBJECTS Of ORIENTAL ART JOHN LA FARGE COLLECTION Throughout all these designs there was to beobserved one thing, however, characteristic of thebest of Oriental art, namely, its innate truthfulness,which is made no less evident in the purely decora-tive schemes than in their pictorial…
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