Esthetique d'un independant : quelques reflexions sur l'art, les artists et les amateurs
Esthetique d'un independant is a French aesthetics treatise by Léon Roger-Miles, published in Paris by J. Augry in 1900, offering reflections on art, artists and collectors. Its pictures are green-printed Art Nouveau decorative bands, with stylised whiplash plant stems, curling tendrils and a small bird-like creature in a side panel, framed by thin rules around French text blocks. A designer could take from them the flowing linear rhythm and tonal green-on-cream palette of turn-of-the-century ornament.
