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Art for art's sake : seven university lectures on the technical beauties of painting / by John C. Van Dyke.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - American Imprints 1898 Van
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van Dyke, John C., 1856-1932.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Painting.
- Genre:
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding) -- 1898.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 249 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
- Edition:
- 9th ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : C. Scribner's Sons, 1898 [c1893]
- Contents:
- Art for art's sake.
- Color.
- Tone and light-and-shade.
- Linear and aërial perspective.
- Values.
- Drawing and composition.
- Textures, surfaces, and brush-work.
- Notes:
- Cover design by Margaret Armstrong.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Unsigned. Gold on dark red cloth.
- Athenaeum copy: Ex libris: NY Mercantile Library.
- Cited in:
- Gullans, Charles B. Margaret Armstrong and American trade bindings, 292
- OCLC:
- 993890
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