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PRINCIPLES OF ART:

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PART I. ART IN HISTORY;

PART II. ART IN THEORY.

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JOHN C. VAN DYKE,

LIBRARIAN OF THE SAGE LIBRARY, NEW BRUNSWICK, N. J.

NEW YORK:

FORDS, HOWARD, & HULBERT.
1887.

COPYRIGHT, IN 1887,

BY JOHN C. VAN DYKE.

1-26-3481B

PREFACE.

THE sending forth of this volume to the public requires but few words of preface. The subject of it is not a new one. The leading principles of art have been too long known and too well established to admit of much discovery; and if herein I have surveyed these principles from a novel point of view and treated them in a comprehensible manner I shall have accomplished all that I intended.

The treatment has been a matter of special care with me, as I wished the book to be of a popular nature and appeal to intelligent readers generally. For this purpose I have endeavored throughout these pages to be clear and concise in statement, to be accurate as regards events of history and their effect upon art, and to be intelligible by the choice of the simplest language. The scientific has been avoided; I have not thought to write the hieratic for a small metaphysical priesthood, but rather the plain language of the people for all who are in any way interested in art.

The first part of the book has been devoted to illustrating the causes, the development, and the character of art, reasoning always from the nature of a barbarism or a civilization to the art which is the re

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