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L'expression dans les beaux-arts : application de la psychologie a l'âetude de l'artiste et des beaux-arts : prose (1883)

Sully Prudhomme, 1839-1907 · 1883 · Paris : A. Lemerre · 5 pictures

A French prose treatise by the poet Sully Prudhomme, published in Paris by A. Lemerre in 1883, applying psychology to the study of artists and the fine arts. The pictures are plain line diagrams of a six-pointed star with lettered vertices, a simple oval with crossing axes, and a decorative woodcut initial U framed by scrolling foliage, which a designer might take as a model for geometric construction and ornamental letter framing.

Art · Artists · Expression (Philosophy) · Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.)

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