Evolution in art: as illustrated by the life-histories of designs
Evolution in Art, published in London by W. Scott in 1895, was written by the ethnologist Alfred Cort Haddon to trace how decorative designs change over time, aimed at students of ornament and primitive art. The pictures are black-and-white line drawings of spirals, scrolls and interlaced bands, showing how a motif simplifies or repeats across a border or panel, which a designer could take as a model for rhythmic pattern and geometric border work.
