Nature in ornament; an enquiry into the natural element in ornamental design & a survey of the ornamental treatment of natural forms (1902)
Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B. T. Batsford · leaf 382
ushwork. The treatment of the thistle in the Germanwood-carving shown on Plate 91, is so essen-tially ornamental that one scarcely knowswhether to describe it as a rendering of thethistle or a development of the scroll. It showsin either case the strong influence of tradition. Ghibertis poppy on… … d PO 1 > oO Treatment. 175 That is really the spirit in which to accepttradition. It is not something to be religiouslypreserved, but handed on. We are too much in the habit of adoptingtraditional forms, as though all necessarymodification had been done for us. That isnot how the good old work…
Decoration and ornament · Nature (Esthetics)
Internet Archive · Smithsonian Libraries · Public Domain Mark 1.0. Free to use for anything.
