LES BEAUX-ARTS REDUITS A UN MEME PRINCIPE

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In this treatise, it is Batteux’s concern to determine the general cause underlying the particular phenomena: poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture and music are but an imitation of nature; the artist defines and reproduces the beauty found in nature. True judgement in the fine arts is termed taste, and the rules of taste are but the consequence of the principle of imitation. An essential work on the subject.

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