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Title: History of art
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Faure, Elie, 1873-1937 Pach, Walter, 1883-1958
Subjects: Art
Publisher: New York and London : Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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aller ones, for his eyeis somewhat shortsighted and he does not easily graspthe idea of mass. He has scrutinized the microcosmsso patiently and sagaciously that through them hehas remade the world, as a scientist reconstructs it inthe field of his lens. He has seen the sun behind aspider web. Beside him, the Occident, in its effort tobring everything to the level of man and to the generalsurroundings of his activity, seems to have neglectedwhat is at the level of the soil, near our eyes, withinreach of our hands—the things one can see only if onebends ones neck and stares fixedly at the same point. JAPAN 139 only looking up to rest ones eyes after too prolongedeffort. The Occident saw form and lines, certainly, andcolors and their broad combinations, but it never sawa flower or a plant, it never studied the slight, curlinglines on water or the trembling of a leaf. As it shutitself up in the house during showers, it did not see howthe rain claws space nor how it bounces from the pud-
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EiTOKU Kano. a pine, screen. (From The Kokka.) dies on the ground; and when it went out of doorsagain when the sun shone, it did not study the dustthat dances in the light. But the Japanese has classi-fied, as if in a science, the most secret revelations ofhis burning curiosity. His eye is a little shortsighted,he is very meticulous, he squats on his heels to tendhis vegetables, to care for his flowers, to graft hisbushes, and to make war on hostile insects. The lifeof his garden becomes the central theme of his medi-tation, which follows its ironical path through minuteanecdotes and little concerts of rustling leaves. Hehas surprised the vast world in its humblest cares.He has visited the aquatic flowers with the suddenflight of the dragon fly, circled around with the beefrom the hive to the glycine flowers, pricked the sugaredfruit with the wasp, noted the bend of the blade of 140 MEDIAEVAL ART grass beneath the weight of the butterfly. Under thewing shells, as the insect raises the

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