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Line & form (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 128

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ette. Now it is possible to regard such spaces orpanels as more or less unrelated, and simply as theboundaries of an individual composition or pictureof somekind. Yetevensoconsideredacertain senseof geometric control would come in in the selectionof our lines and masses, both in regard to each… … RELATION OF DESIGN TO BOUNDARY : SIMPLE LINEAR MOTIVESAND PATTERN BASES.109 INFLUENCE OF CONTROLLING LINES, ETC.distinctive reason for existence in that particularform—just as we should expect a shell-fish to con-form to the shape of its shell. Such a re-echo oracknowledgment might be ever so…

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