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Line & form (1902)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 36

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of their being always strug-gling against its pressure even in the calmestweather; and this is entirely due to our associationof wind-movement with this peculiar linear ex-pression. Flowing water, again, is expressed by certainrecurring wave lines, which remind us of the ancientlinear symbols of… … inof lines, sometimes crossino^ like a network, andsometimes running into a series of shell-like waves ;while the sands themselves are ribbed and chan-nelled and modelled by the recurring movement 17 C LINEAR EXPRESSION OF TEXTURES of the waves, which leave upon them the impress and the expression…

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