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The Analysis of Beauty
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Hogarth’s influential art treatise on line, movement, variety, grace, and visual composition.
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The Analysis of Beauty
The Analysis of Beauty argues for the serpentine line as a principle of grace, using everyday observation, painting, sculpture, dress, and movement to explain visual pleasure. It is a useful public-domain text for art history, aesthetics, design theory, and eighteenth-century criticism.
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- 01Full text
- 02THE
- 03ANALYSIS
- 04OF
- 05BEAUTY.
- 06BY WILLIAM HOGARTH.
- 07LONDON:
- 08LEICESTER-FIELDS.
- 09MDCCLIII.
- 10PREFACE.
- 11INTRODUCTION.
- 12CHAPTER I.
- 13CHAPTER II.
- 14CHAPTER III.
- 15CHAPTER IV.
- 16CHAPTER V.
- 17CHAPTER VI.
- 18CHAPTER VII.
- 19CHAPTER VIII.
- 20CHAPTER IX.
- 21CHAPTER X.
- 22CHAPTER XI.
- 23Chapter III, on Uniformity. "The length of the foot," say they, "in
- 24CHAPTER XII.
- 25CHAPTER XIII.
- 26Chapter IV on simplicity: the painters accordingly divide theirs into
- 27CHAPTER XIV.
- 28CHAPTER XV.
- 29CHAPTER XVI.
- 30CHAPTER XVII.
- 31FINIS.
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