lthough matiy of the principal decorative artistslive in France. French binding suffers from the de-fects common to all the applied art of the country.Over-production, both in painting and sculpture, isdriving many artists towards other fields of work,that of industrial art, for instance; but for… … BOOKBINDING DESIGNED BY EUGENE CARRIERE. iavis undertaken ; and nowhere is this spirit of dilettan-tism more evident than in the French book-bind-ings. The transition from painting to designingbook-covers seems to have been considered as ofthe slightest kind ; the painter has evidently im-agined he…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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