urse, em-broidery among us, evenwhen it has risen abovemere fancy work, hasnever become a genuine art;for it may be set down as anaxiom that nothing whichmerely reproduces an exist-ing art form is by itself anart. The reproduction ofmere pictures in embroidery,whether done at the com-mand and after… … Hcnuaiiii Obnsfs Eiiibroidcrccl Dcconifiom his art. His embroideries are copies of nothing,not even of nature, and although, as mere needle-work, they surpass anything that has been ad-mired in the old embroideries, they do not stopshort there. He makes of embroidery a great de-corative art,…
Art · Decoration and ornament
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