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 46
under one banner as another, so long as it is for the cause we have at heart P^or my part I see nothing for it but to accept the term " conventional " to express the kind of treatment adapted both to the use and purpose of ornament and to the material, tools, and methods of work employed upon it —… … degree unsuited to express a modern 6. DKTAIL OF EMBOSSED idea. We are, after all, moderns. IRON, NINETEENTH CEN- It is especially unfortunate that TURY ENGLISH. the examples referred to as illus- trating the principle of conventionality, are commonly of a character so dry and rigid as to give…
Decoration and ornament
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