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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 49

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7. DETAIL OF PERSIAN POTTERY PAINTING ADAPTED TO FREEBRUSHWORK. perpetual variation on the old, old tunes long since playedout, if^we take it to mean slavish adherence to well-worntypes, if we identify it with the affectation of a mannernot our own, if we argue from it a bigoted adherence 12… … 8. DETAIL ADAPTED TO INLAY OF MOTHER-O-PEARL—INDIAN, to the letter of an antiquated and obsolete law—no onewith a spark of originality or invention in him (no artist,that is to say) can consistently belong to the party ofconvention. If, on the other hand, we understand the term to implyjust that…

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