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Soft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. 2nd Edition. Size 250mmX175mm. Card covers. This book, now recognised as a classic, has done perhaps more than any other single work to change the face of art criticism in the twentieth- century. Whereas previous books on French painting looked only at the history of painting as an evolution of artistic styles (baroque, rococo, neo-classical, and so on). The author demonstrates that the relation of formal and 'literary' elements was regarded by painters and critics in the eighteenth-century as the primary issue to be confronted in the production of a painting. **The front and back covers have been laminated.**.…