Mural painting in America; the Scammon lectures, delivered before the Art institute of Chicago, March, 1912, and since greatly enlarged, by Edwin Howland Blashfield; (1913)
Blashfield, Edwin Howland, 1848-1936 · New York, C. Scribner's sons · leaf 252
thathe could pay due attention to painting and drawingand modelling. He was not entangled by the com-plicated or set guessing by the recondite, and he wasable to give his thought as much to the manner asto the matter. But they were stories, graphic pres-entations of traditions which lay close to… … MURAL PAINTING 177 ing. The opponent of so-called literary art willhave a bad time to-day if he will honestly considerhis position in detail. What is Greek vase-paint-ing? Story-telling. What do the walls of Egypt tellus ? The same stories of a hundred deities ten thou-sand times repeated. What is…
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