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Old masters and new : essays in art criticism

Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · 1905 · New York : Fox, Duffield & Co. · 14 pictures

Old masters and new is a 1905 New York book of art criticism by Kenyon Cox, 1856-1919, published by Fox, Duffield & Co., and aimed at readers of art and its history. Its pictures are reproduced halftone plates of painted scenes, shown on full pages with captions in small capitals, mostly rotated on the page; a designer might borrow their dense mythological groupings, dramatic diagonal movement and tonal shadow.

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