Wylie Sypher. Rococo to Cubism in Art and Literature. New York: Random House, 1960. First printing, stated. In very good condition with jacket. Illustrated with numerous black and white photographs. Bound in white cloth with black stamp/gold lettering on the spine. Grey/blue top stain. Dust jacket designed by Sam Marsh. 353 pp; measures about 9-1/4 by 6-1/4 inches. Art history and literary criticism from eighteenth century Rococo style to 1960s Cubism.

From the jacket flap: "Mr. Sypher focuses on the dominant style of each period as it reflects its prevailing world view ... analyzing intervening attempts at style in the picturesque genre, romantic art, impressionism, pre-Raphaelitism and Art Nouveau. He presents penetrating and brilliant analyses of such writers as Pope, Flaubert, Baudelaire, Mallarme, the symbolists and Gide, and such painters as Watteau, Claude, Constable, Turner, Monet, Manet, Degas, Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso. The artists and writers are seen against the philosophic background of each period as it manifests itself in the work of Newton, Bergson, Whitehead and Einstein."

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Note: (Wikipedia) -- Feltus Wylie Sypher (1905 – 1987) was an American non-fiction writer and professor. A graduate of Amherst College, he received a master's degree from Tufts University in 1929 and became an instructor at Simmons College. In 1932, he received his second master's degree from Harvard University. He earned his Ph.D. in 1937 from Harvard. Sypher taught summers at the University of Wisconsin, the University of Minnesota, and in the 1968 summer session he became the first Robert Frost Professor of Literature at the Bread Loaf School of English at Middlebury College, where he had taught since 1957. Professor Sypher was twice awarded a Guggenheim fellowship for research in the theory of fine arts and literature. Throughout his life, Sypher wrote on the history of art and literature, sometimes combining both. Sypher viewed art history and criticism as the same thing.

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