Composition
1920, an early hardback edition of Arthur Wesley Dow's classic instructional art book
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Printing Details
Ninth edition. Hardback, bound in quarter cloth with paper covered boards, remnants of dustwrapper tucked in book to rear. 29 × 23.5cm, 128pp.
First published in 1899, Arthur Wesley Dow's "Composition" has had a great influence on artists in helping them think of visual form and composition in relation to artistic modernity. In the book, Dow develops a system for teaching students to create freely constructed images on the basis of harmonic relations between lines, colours, and dark and light patterns. Greatly influenced by Japanese art, he expounds a theory of "flat" formal equilibrium as an essential component of telling pictorial creation. Illustrated throughout in black and white and colour.
Condition
There is rubbing to the corners, and a small closed split in spine's cloth for about 3cm from the top. The contents are in very good order, if a little age-toned.
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Price
£35.00
