Author: Blanshard, Frances Bradshaw
Title: Retreat from Likeness in the Theory of Painting
Description: New York, Columbia University Press, 1949. 2nd edition. orig.cloth. 23x15cm, x,178,(9)pp, A smudge to rear flyleaf. Rubberstamp to flyleaf. Embossed stamp to title-page.. 9pp plates.. Rubbed. Binding corners bumped. Good. ¶ Second edition, revised & enlarged. 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.

Keywords: Art History, Abstract Painting, Aesthetics, Philosophy, Aesthetic, Criticism, Theory, ,