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The craftsman (1901)

New York [etc.] · leaf 101

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es that are to govern the struc-tural development of his design, willfeel that the problem of conventionali-zation is solved when he has adaptedthe lines and forms of a specific speci-men to a definite shape. His attentionis absorbed almost entirely by the linesand forms of the specimen with… … FIGURE FORTY-ONE tone. If we are ready to accept theassertion that the beauty of a design isdependent, in the final analysis, on itsstructural fitness and the relation oflines, forms, and tones, rather than uponits relation to nature, to historic orna-ment, to style, or to pictorial interest,then,…

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