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Primer of design (1878)

Barry, Charles Alfred · Boston, Lee and Shepard; New York, C.T. Dillingham · leaf 34

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Con- PRIMER OF DESIGN. 31 trast, as a principle of decorative design, should alwaysbe subordinate to the laws that give harmony andstrength to orna-ment. The law ismanifested when acurved line is setoff by a straightone, a large formby a small one, &c,&c. A group of un-interesting forms ina… … VII.—THE LAW OF RADIATION. 22. Radiation is accessory to symmetry, but differsfrom it in this particular : forms disposed symmetricallyupon a straight line must, in a radiating body, spring 32 PRIMER OF DESIGN.

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