Art and life. / With eight illustrations
1910, First Edition. London : Methuen. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dust-toned and slightly scuffed. Some light foxing to prelims. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #449388
Physical description; xi, 314 pages 8 plates (including frontispiece: portrait) 20 cm. Notes; "Within the writer's horizon Flaubert and Blake seemed the most strongly characterized instances of men conceiving of art as an ideal life: he therefore uses them as illustrations ..."--Page viii. Date of printing on verso of title page. Contents; Introduction.-Gustave Flaubert.-Critics, man and work.-Samples.-Impersonal art.-Reality and the ideal.-William Blake and his aesthetic.-Visionary art.-Prospects.-Epilogue.-Appendices. Subjects; Flaubert, Gustave (1821-1880). Blake, William (1757-1827). Art Philosophy. Aesthetics. Art and literature.
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