Beauty of the Beast

257 Pages·2012·37.564 MB·English

by  Bascom, John

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ISBN: 978-1-78042-722-5
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“Beauty is animalistic, beautiful is celestial.”
— Joseph Joubert, Pensées
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Featured Artists
Aldrovandi, Ulisse 55, 57
Amir, Shaykh Muhammad 87
Arcimboldo, Giuseppe 49, 51, 53, 59
Audubon, John James 109, 113
Bonheur, Auguste François 147
Bonnard, Pierre 177, 185
Bosch, Hieronymus 33
Brascassat, Jacques Raymond 119
Bruegel the Elder, Pieter 63
Brueghel the Elder, Jan 69
Brueghel the Younger, Jan 65
Chagall, Marc 231, 235
Chardin, Jean-Baptiste Siméon 101, 103
Courbet, Gustave 145, 155, 159, 161
Cranach, Lucas 61
Crane, Walter 179
Da Vinci, Leonardo 27, 37
De Luna, Charles 99
Degas, Edgar 165
Desportes, François 93, 95
Dürer, Albrecht 29, 31, 35, 39, 41, 43, 45, 47
Gauguin, Paul 189, 191
Generalic, Ivan 239, 241
Géricault, Théodore 111
Hicks, Edward 125, 127, 133
Hiroshige, Utagawa 123, 137, 139, 141, 149
Hirschfield, Morris 233
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Hokusai, Katsushika 115, 117, 121, 129, 131, 135
Jacque, Charles-Emile 153
Kandinsky, Wassily 213
Klee, Paul 227, 229
Kuhnert, Friedrich Wilhelm 183
Manet, Edouard 157, 163, 169
Mansur 73
Marc, Franz 199, 205, 207, 209, 215, 217, 219
Matisse, Henri 211
Oudry, Jean-Baptiste 97
Picasso, Pablo 225, 237
Pirosmani, Niko 221
Pompon, François 223
Potter, Paulus 91
Ranson, Paul 181
Rembrandt 77, 81, 83, 85, 89
Remington, Frederic 195, 201
Robert-Fleury, Joseph Nicolas 151
Robillard, Hippolite 167
Rousseau, Henri 193, 197, 203
Rubens, Peter Paul 71
Shishkin, Ivan 173
Steinlen, Théophile 187
Stubbs, George 105, 107
Susini, Antonio or Giovanni Francesco 67
Troyon, Constant 143
Van Gogh, Vincent 171, 175
Velázquez, Diego 75, 79
Warhol, Andy 243, 245, 247
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In defining beauty, we say of it, first, that it is a
simple and primary quality. It is uncompounded.
No two or three qualities in any method present
can compass it with their combined effects. No analysis
can resolve it into other perceptions, but there always
remains something unresolved and unexplained, which
is beauty. This is proved by the fact that the most
successful of these resolutions, while they hit on qualities
The Three Black Auks (detail)
Anonymous,c.27,000-19,000 BCE
Cosquer Cave,Calanque de Morgiou
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