Basic Design

Maurice De Sausmarez, who died in 1969, was Head of Department of Fine Art in the University of Leeds and, later Principal of the Byam Shaw School of Drawing and Painting in London. His own work is known and collected internationally.

• Foreword by Gyorgy KepesAcknowledgementsPreface1. Introduction2. Primary Elements and Forces3. The Two-Dimensional Field and the Space Frame4. Spatial Forces5. Analytical Drawing6. Visual Kinetics7. Colour – Fundamental Studies and ‘Objective’ Principles8. Colour – Space and Subjective ColourBibliographyIndex

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