Hogarth, William,  1697-1764 <br/><br/>
The Analysis of Beauty :  Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste 

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<br/><br/> Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_Beauty  Release date is 2016-03-15 
<br/><br/>Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust)  Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust) 
<br/><br/> "The Analysis of Beauty" by William Hogarth is a book published in 1753 that describes theories of visual beauty accessible to common readers. Hogarth introduces his celebrated "Line of Beauty"—a serpentine S-curve that evokes liveliness and movement. He outlines six principles affecting beauty: fitness, variety, regularity, simplicity, intricacy, and quantity. Written as part of his campaign against fashionable taste, the work challenges conventional artistic wisdom and invites readers into a systematic exploration of what makes objects visually appealing. (This is an automatically generated summary.) 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 
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