Silcock, Arnold
Background for Beauty
: Andrew Melrose Limited, 1951. . , H, Binding is tight, front cover just beginning to separate from bottom on inner joint, covers rubbed and soiled, corners bumped - especially bottom, usual library profanations, "What is imagination and how does it work? What are these acts of seeing and feeling and thinking? How do they help us, and aid the artist, and what part does intuition play? These are some of the questions which need to be answered. A beginning on these lines is made in this book. And,...a beginning is also made in discussing the nature of beauty. For how could we succeed in discovering the nature of art until we had disclosed something of the nature and essence of beauty itself?", Chapter 1 - "Beauty and Ugliness in Nature and in Art", etc,. profusely illustrated, 220 pages.; . Good, Cloth, No Jacket, .
$20.00
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