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Studies in the decorative art of Japan (1910)

Piggott, Francis Taylor, Sir, 1852-1925 · London : B. T. Batsford · leaf 115

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-to-back, as in the elementary diapers, and this becomes the unit of designin the future. The reason for taking the half instead of the whole figure (fig.10), will appear as the argument ]>roceeds. In order to illustrate what I mean by saying that the spaces between thelimbs take their share in… … Tlie elToct of this, looked ;it as a mere question of hhick and white, or li«:litand sliade, itinost unsatisfactory ; it throws tlie pairs oi pa/nra elements intoliigh relief, and the predominant bhick gives no determinate design, bnt only aconfused and meaningless black mass at the meeting ])oints…

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