Transactions of the Guild & School of Handicraft (1890)
Guild of Handicraft (London, England), Ashbee, C. R. (Charles Robert), 1863-1942, Reid, J. Eadie, Holiday, Henry, 1839-1927. Artistic Aspects of Edward Bellamy's Looking Backward · London : Guild and School of Handicraft · leaf 99
89 VERY few people know that sculpture is a language, or how it became so, and this it is, of which I will tell you to-night. It began in the carved hieroglyphic writings of Egypt, and I will show you how. ^S#S#S#N#S^S#S#S#S#N#S#“> … All this you see was only sculpture on a little scent bottle.^s#S#^x#S#S^S#^ NOW this kind of character work went on and on, and gradually began to take form in ani¬ mals, birds, and creatures of all sorts, in its language. Thus, the Egyptians gave to this form the name of one of their gods. They…
Guild of Handicraft (London, England) · Arts and crafts movement · Decorative arts
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