Parsons, Frank Alvah, 1868-1930 · Garden City, New York, Doubleday, Page & company · leaf 501
FOK UNPARALLELED INSIPIDITY OF POSE, FOR COSTUME DESIGNATTEMPTING THE IMPOSSIBLE, YET WITH A CERTAIN REFINEMENTOF GENERAL APPEARANCE, THE PERIOD OF ABOUT 1862 IS SUPREME. … BY 1869 REDEMPTION FROM THE IMPOSSIBLE WAS NO LONGER AMATTER FOR SPECULATION. TWENTIETH CENTURY STYLES which time we brought together in this country for thefirst time the art objects, broadly speaking, of theciviUzed world. The dulled and soggy national artsense was jolted into semi-consciousness…
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