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The Aesthetic Adventureby Gaunt, William
DescriptionLondon: Jonathan Cape, 1975. 224pp., last 2 blank, list of illustrations, sources and acknowledgements and index. Pale yellow coloured endpapers. The text is illustrated with coloured reproductions of early 20th century paintings and late 19th century paintings, and one black-and-white cartoon. Brown coloured boards with gilt writing on spine. Minor shelf wear to the lower edges of the book. Browning to the paper edges. Mark to the top right-hand corner of the free front endpaper. Internal pages are brown. Illustrated dustwrapper, being a reproduction of "The Girl in White" by Whistler, with brown background with green and orange writing on the front panel and white on spine. Dustwrapper use rubbed and slightly faded and there is very minor rubbing to the top and bottom dustwrapper edges. "The Aesthetic Adventure is a chapter in the history of art which is also a chapter in the social history of Britain: it illustrates the intellectual developments, the cleavages in class and education and the social transformations which characterised the Victorian era.". Digital image available upon request.. Revised Edition. Brown Boards. Reasonable/Reasonable. Octavo - up to 9 ¾" Tall. Fine Arts. Similar books from this booksellerFrom this bookseller's Art -- History and Theory catalog.
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