The Analysis of Beauty
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The title page presents an inquiry into beauty intended to give a fixed basis to fluctuating ideas of taste, while the preface acknowledges doubts about the undertaking. The account of an engraved frontispiece describes a serpentine line on a painter's palette with words beneath it identifying the line with beauty. The discussion of proportion contrasts the fitness of nature's machines with those made by human hands as a way toward explaining beauty of proportion.
The description of a clockwork duck mentions movements of its head, bill, wings and tail, calling these among the plainest and easiest directions of living movement.
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- William Hogarth
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- 84
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