Copyright © 1972, 1993 by Nathan Cabot Hale. All rights reserved under Pan American and International Copyright Conventions.

 

 

 

This Dover edition, first published in 1993, is a republication of the work originally published by Watson-Guptill Publications, New York, in 1972. The present edition omits all the original color plates, and the pagination, table of contents, list of illustrations, text and index have been altered accordingly. A new introduction has been written by the author, and a few errata have been corrected tacitly in the text.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hale, Nathan Cabot.

Abstraction in art and nature / Nathan Cabot Hale.

p. cm.

Originally published: New York ; Watson-Guptill, 1972.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780486142302

1. Art, Abstract. 2. Nature (Aesthetics) 3. Natural history—Pictorial works. I. Title.

N7432.5.A2H3 1993

701’.8—dc20

92-41717 CIP