The two paths : being lectures on art, and its application to decoration and manufacture, delivered in 1858-9 (1859)
Ruskin, John, 1819-1900 · New York : J. Wiley · leaf 40
endea- vour to substitute mathematical proportions for the know- ledge of life they do not possess, and the representation of life of which they are incapable. Now, this substitution of obedience to mathematical law for sympathy with observed life, is the first characteristic of the hopeless work… … lege, Cambridge.* Now, you see the characteristics of this utterly dead school * I copy this woodcut from Westwood’s u Paheographia Sacra.’’
Decorative arts · Art · Decoration and ornament
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