TY - BOOK AU - Hogarth,William TI - The Analysis of Beauty: Written with a view of fixing the fluctuating ideas of taste AV - BHN PY - 2016/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Aesthetics -- Early works to 1800 N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Analysis_of_Beauty; Release date is 2016-03-15; Produced by Clare Graham and Marc D'Hooghe (Images generously made available by the Hathi Trust); Original publication data not identified N2 - "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.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/51459 ER -