The Analysis of Beauty

About this eBook

Author

Hogarth, William, 1697-1764

Title

The Analysis of Beauty Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste

Credits

Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust)

Language

English

LoC Class

N: Fine Arts

Subject

Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 51459

Release Date

March 15, 2016

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.Untitled
2. 2.OF — BEAUTY. — Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating Ideas of — TASTE . — BY WILLIAM HOGARTH . — PREFACE. — ADVERTISEMENT. — CONTENTS. — ERRATA. — INTRODUCTION. — CHAPTER I. — Of fitness . — CHAPTER II. — Of Variety . — CHAPTER III. — Of Uniformity, Regularity, or Symmetry . — CHAPTER IV. — Of Simplicity, or Distinctness . — CHAPTER V. — Of Intricacy . — CHAPTER VI. — Of Quantity . — CHAPTER VII. — Of Lines . — CHAPTER VIII. — Of what sort of Parts, and how pleasing Forms are composed . — CHAPTER IX. — Of Composition with the Waving-Line . — CHAPTER X. — Of Compositions with the Serpentine-Line . — CHAPTER XI. — Of Proportion . — CHAPTER XII. — Of Light and Shade , and the manner in which objects are explained to the eye by them . — CHAPTER XIII. — Of Composition with regard to Light, Shade and Colours . — CHAPTER XIV. — Of Colouring . — CHAPTER XV. — Of the Face . — CHAPTER XVI. — Of Attitude . — CHAPTER XVII. — Of Action . — FINIS. — Prints Publish'd by W. Hogarth , and are to be had at his House in Leicester Fields.
3. 3.Figures referr'd to in the Book . — PLATE I. — PLATE II.

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