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 F. (Lewis Foreman), 1845-1910, author · London : B.T. Batsford · leaf 172
ORNAMENT AND ITS APPLICATION. 136 The tediousness of commonplace mechanical production, depressing beyond measure to the sensitive artist, has induced a desire on the part of some to go back to mediaeval ways of workmanship — ^not a very reasonable desire, intelligible as it may be. In their… … 129. CHARACTERISTIC BUT ARCHAIC JAVANESE ORNAMENT. It is of no use trying to persuade the twentieth century to revert to the rudeness of the thirteenth. Whatever the charm of Early Gothic work, its rudeness is out of keeping with the ways of life to which we have long been accustomed ; and it is no…
Decoration and ornament
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