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(Neoclassicism & Romanticism){Neoclassicism [continued (10)]}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]

[Redbook10:38-39][19910512:1718bv](Neoclassicism & Romanticism){Neoclassicism [continued (10)]}[Extracts from source text with ms notes][12th May 1991]


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‘The artist* intentionally designed a composition that rejected all graphic illusion and made his illustrations flat and colourless, drawn & printed in thin outlines which formed austere patterns over the white background. The success of these designs was almost unequalled in the history of illustration’

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*[John] Flaxman [(1755-1826ce)]


**– ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 738

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