Twelve Types

By: K. Chesterton, G.

Book Excerpt: ...sly improved, and if we look back at the early Victorian drawing-rooms it is only to realise the strange but essential truth that art, or human decoration, has, nine times out of ten in history, made things uglier than they were before, from the 'coiffure' of a Papuan savage to the wall-paper of a British merchant in 1830.But great and beneficent as was the sthetic revolution of Morris, there was a very definite limit to it. It did...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KH2LB6W
• ISBN13: 9798679853898
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 66 Pages
• Weight: 0.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"