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Line & form (1921)

Crane, Walter, 1845-1915 · London : G. Bell · leaf 93

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ived the multifarious, ever varying, and com-plex forms, the products of the forces and condi-tions of nature, or the necessitous inventivenessof art, just as we may take the square and thecircle to be the parents of linear and geometricdesio^n. The cube and the sphere, the ellipse, the cone,and… … ELEMENTARY FORMS: PYRAMID, SPHERE, CUBE, HEXAGON, CONE. bodies upon a plane surface. Such forms beingmore simple and regular than any natural forms,they are supposed to reduce the problem of draw-

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