The elements of dynamic symmetry (Yvonne Audette’s copy)

A$80 · Offered by Douglas Stewart Fine Books

New Haven : Yale University Press, 1959 (reprint). Octavo, decorated cloth in duatjacket (a couple of very small chips to edges, price clipped, notes by Audette on the lower flap in pen), pp. xxviii; 133, diagrams, a very good copy. The Elements of Dynamic Symmetry is a seminal book by artist and theoretician Jay Hambidge, first published in 1926. It outlines a design methodology based on proportional systems found in nature and classical Greek art. Provenance: Australian artist Yvonne Audette (born 1930), signed by her on the endpaper, acquired in 2025.

• Printing: later
• Binding: Hardcover

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