Day, Lewis F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 300
136 Nature in .Ornament. ova peculiarly the artist's own. … equally abstract forms in the Japanese embroidery on p. 66. These are quite unmistakably wild flags. The sixteenth century Italian embroidery, on p. 135, is scarcely far enough removed from nature to be effectively ornamental. 1 *\ In the eighteenth cen- tury silk weaving (Plate 101. Renaissance…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Aesthetics)
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