Frances Bradshaw Blanshard - Retreat from Likeness in the Theory of Painting. (Signed by Peter Selz) (2nd Edition, Revised and Enlarged)

New York: Columbia University Press, 1949. 8vo. 178 pp. Hard cover. Good. Green cloth covered boards. Minor shelf wear. No Dust Jacket. Bump and wear at head of spine. Minor creasing on a few pages with a quarter inch cut on the first 30 pages. Penciled underlining and notations in Peter Selz’s hand on some pages. Color and B&W plates. Signed by Peter Selz on first page and dated 1949. Contents: The Copy Theory; Likeness Generalized: Aristotle & Sir Joshua Reynolds; The Artist as Mystic: Plotinus & Schopenhauer; From Likeness to Expression; The Heritage of Abstract Painting; The Theory of Abstract Painting. From the Collection of the Art Historian Peter Selz. .

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