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Title: Brooklyn Museum Quarterly
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences. Brooklyn museum quarterly
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Publisher: Brooklyn
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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rrie. Sept. 1, 1916 $1.75 Vol. Ill, No. 1, Long Island Fauna-IV. The Sharks. ByJohn Treadwell Nichols and Robert Cushman Mur-phy. April, 1916 25 MISCELLANEOUSBibliography of Japan, by Stewart Culin, 1916 $ .10 Some Books upon Nature Study in the Childrens Museum Library,compiled by Miriam S. Draper, 1908: second edition 1911. Some Nature Books for Mothers and Children. An annotated list;compiled by Miriam S. Draper, 1912. THEBROOKLYN MUSEUM QUARTERLY VOL. VI. JLLY, 1919 No. 3 M CONTENTS Cattle on the Phiins Frontispiece (Painting l)y Emile van Marcke) PAGE Design, Craftsmanship, and the Imitation of Nature in Ancient Art—Clement Heat on 133 Further Notes on Bhickhurn—John Hill Morgan. . . . 147 Cattle on the Plains—Gertrude M. Young 156 (Painting by Emile van Marcke) Notes on the Spring Exhibitions at the Brooklyn Mu-seum : The Significance of ^Mialing Memorabilia 159 Marine Camouflage 163 Pencil Drawings by Frank Mura 164 Wild Life in Art 165 Book Notes 168 Museum Notes 170 f^l
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Design, Craftsmanship and the Imitationof Nature in Ancient Art ^ ALONG acquaintance with ancient art, from the timeof the Greeks and Assyrians to the end of the me-dicBval epoch, has made its general character so famihar tothe writer that modern art appears, as a whole, sharply incontrast with that which for so long has heen the method ofart of all nations. This generalization arose by an uncon-scious and intuitive perception, but it was later analyzedcritically. I say this to explain how the point of view grewup which I seek to communicate. In mediteval and other ancient art, as a whole, thereseems to have been no desire for a purely realistic treat-ment. Of course there are cases in which there is somerealism, as in the earliest art of all, the prehistoric carvingsand paintings in France and INIesopotamia. We find itagain in late Roman sculpture and painting, and in somemediawal art. But even in these cases the realistic tendencyis rarely separated from decorative design. What was

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