Book written by Mecislas Goldberg, published in 1908.
Written in 1905 and published posthumously in 1908, Mecislas Golberg (1869-1907) and his Morality of Lines had a real fascination for artists and art critics of the early 20th century. In this treatise of aesthetics, Mecislas Golberg takes as an object, to illustrate his point, the series of drawings and caricatures of André Rouveyre (1879-1962): Divine Carcasses (published in 1907), to establish a genealogy of the lines which crosses Gauguin, the parietal art, the Chinese art, the Hellenistic art and even... the art of the children. Like Honoré Daumier, Francisco Goya and Sem (quoted several times in the book), André Rouveyre's caricatures are defined by a sobriety of lines, which are sometimes reduced to a minimum. He announces the formal research of cubism. Golberg calls for a new visual language and defends the simplification of forms. (https://www.parismuseescollections.paris.fr/fr/ressources-bibliographiques/la-morale-des-lignes#infos-secondaires-detail)