Excerpt from Composition: A Series of Exercises in Art Structure for the Use of Students and Teachers No. 3 line. Harmony of rhythmic curves. From book Lof prints by Okumura Masanobu, Japanese, 18th century. Careful distinction should be made be tween notan, an element of universal beauty, and light and shadow, a single fact of external nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.