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Ornament & its application; a book for students, treating in a practical way of the relation of design to material, tools and methods of work (1904)

Day, Lewis Foreman, 1845-1910 · London, B.T. Batsford · leaf 170

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-.But the fault does not lie altogether with our much-abused machiner), though mechanical execution has helpedboth to pervert artistic taste and to prejudice mens mindsin favour of something in the way of workmanship which AGAINST THE GRAIN. … ARAD TURNING. is rather smug than beautiful or really finished. There isanother element at work, which seems not to have come intooperation until comparatively modern times when art for-sook the path of industry—since when the artist is too muchinclined to accept a pictorial ideal of art which,…

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