The conception of art
An illustrated treatise on artistic intention and composition by the American painter Henry Rankin Poore, published by Doubleday, Page in 1913 for art students and general readers. The plates are coarse-screen halftones of paintings and sculpture — grottoes, winged figures, crowded figure groups, a draped running statue — reduced to smoky greys and hard whites, useful as ready-made texture and silhouette.
