Abstract
This text, comprised of two “books” and published in 1864, sets out Michel Eugène Chevreul’s understanding of abstraction in relation to the arts. Book I addresses sculpture, painting, architecture, garden design, and music; Book II, literature. Given the great influence Chevreul’s color theory had on artists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries it is tempting to speculate as to whether any of them ever studied this work. In Book I, Chevreul puts forward an account of medium specificity that echoes Lessing’s in Laocoon.
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