id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt nyp.33433072177839 Collingwood, W. G. 1854-1932. The philosophy of ornament: eight lectures on the history of decorative art, given at University college, Liverpool By W. Gershom Collingwood 1883 .txt text/plain 31505 1874 69 and Greek work; the rude beginnings of art Geographically, there are four great art-producing lands,-Persia, purely Aryan; India, century B.C., introduced ideas of Greek art, beauty or art; this that our decorators have Greek art was in subduing monstrous conceptions to natural ones: it did this by general abstract art; this is Greek design; the in line is Greek design,-is " classic" art. Christian Greek art of all those mosaics, paintings, and ivory-carvings called Byzantine ? and art, as the early Greeks,-indeed as the 7. The union of Northern decorative principles with Greek design of figures, drapery, Gothic art, then, as all other styles Life, in nature and in art, is the thing work in the best periods of Gothic art, from the ages of natural and national styles. work as the great Greek or Gothic schools Without study of the Decorative Art of do great things like the Greek and Gothic ./cache/nyp.33433072177839.pdf ./txt/nyp.33433072177839.txt