The Quantification of Beauty
Endnotes
1 D. R. Hay, Science of Beauty, as Developed in Nature and Applied in Art (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1856); see the chapter on beauty based on numerical ratio, pp. 15-27, and the chapter on colour pp. 67-81.
2 C. Frayling, The Royal College of Art: One Hundred & Fifty Years of Art & Design (London: Barrie & Jenkins, 1987), pp. 40-41; and Barbara Whitney Keyser, ‘Ornament as Idea: Indirect Imitation of Nature in the Design Reform Movement’, Journal of Design History, 11 (1998): 127-44.
3 Sidney Colvin, ‘The Royal Academy. Third Article’, Pall Mall Gazette, 18 May 1874, p. 11. Cosmo Monkhouse, ‘Albert Moore’, Magazine of Art, 8 (1885): 191-96. There are many other positive reviews such as ‘The Royal Academy. Third Article’, Pall Mall Gazette, 18 May 1874, p. 11, ‘The Royal Academy. Second Notice’, Examiner, 6 May 1876, p. 521, ‘The Royal Academy. Second Article’ Pall Mall Gazette, 14 May 1881, p. 11, and a defence of Moore by J. Comyn Carr in ‘Modern Taste’, Pall Mall Gazette, 11 December 1874, p. 3.
4 This idea was first suggested by Robyn Asleson in Albert Moore (London: Phaidon, 2004).
5 The Times, review of Albert Moore: His Life and Works (22 November, 1894).
6 Walter Pater, Plato and Platonism, http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/8plpl10.txt> [accessed 12 February 2011], p. 19
7 The Whistler quote is from his ‘The Ten O’Clock Lecture’ and is reprinted in Charles Harrison, Paul Wood, Jason Gaiger, Art in Theory 1815-1900: An Anthology of Changing Ideas (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 1998), p. 841.
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