Kelley, Charles Fabens, 1885-, Riverside Press (Cambridge, Mass.), Mowll, William Luther, joint author · Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company · leaf 28
nsation to untutored minds. Advancing civili-zation, constantly evolving a more complex mental atti-tude, has demanded more elaborate designs to satisfy a lesseasily pleased sense of the beautiful. The rudely paintedlotus borders of the Egyptians developed into the honey-suckle borders of the… … IM mmnnnnmnMnnnM Fig. 6. COPTIC TEXTILES Organic and inorganic design must be continually cor-related (Fig. 7). If the theory of pure design alone werestudied, the method of attack upon a problem in organicdesign w^ould not appear. Its study, however, establishes areasonable basis for procedure,…
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