ABSTRACT

This book, first published in 1947, is collection of critical essays by Herbert Read that had not been previously published in book form. The essays cover several different subject areas, including literature, art, architecture, and film, from a span of twenty years. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers.

chapter |11 pages

Eric Gill

chapter |3 pages

Klee

chapter |5 pages

Lawrence of Arabia

chapter |4 pages

Art and the People

chapter |5 pages

Henry James

chapter |2 pages

Art and War

chapter |2 pages

George Herbert

chapter |6 pages

Cézanne

chapter |4 pages

Bosch and Dali

chapter |8 pages

The Paradox of Anarchism

chapter |5 pages

Havelock Ellis

chapter |3 pages

William Morris

chapter |8 pages

Ben Nicholson

chapter |12 pages

English Prose

chapter |5 pages

Henri Rousseau

chapter |7 pages

The Faculty of Abstraction

chapter |3 pages

The Last of the Bohemians

chapter |1 pages

Art and Autarky

chapter |1 pages

Coleridge

chapter |3 pages

Vulgarity

chapter |9 pages

Shelley

chapter |4 pages

Problems of Primitive Art

chapter |2 pages

Milton

chapter |5 pages

Sickert

chapter |6 pages

Film Æsthetic

chapter |4 pages

James Joyce

chapter |5 pages

The Language of the Eye

chapter |6 pages

Nathaniel Hawthorne

chapter |3 pages

Gerard Manley Hopkins

chapter |11 pages

Doctor Faustus

chapter |5 pages

Toulouse-Lautrec

chapter |8 pages

Wordsworth's Remorse

chapter |6 pages

Realism and Superrealism

chapter |3 pages

George Saintsbury

chapter |3 pages

Max Liebermann

chapter |3 pages

Art and Ethics

chapter |4 pages

The later Teats

chapter |10 pages

Socialist Realism

chapter |6 pages

The Poet and the Film

chapter |6 pages

The Message of Ruskin

chapter |2 pages

Etruscan Art

chapter |5 pages

Walter de la Mare

chapter |4 pages

Jean Hélion

chapter |11 pages

Kierkegaard

chapter |2 pages

Indian Art

chapter |2 pages

D. H. Lawrence

chapter |3 pages

Modern Chinese Painting

chapter |6 pages

Walter Bagehot

chapter |4 pages

The Triumph of Picasso

chapter |9 pages

Roger Fry

chapter |3 pages

Raphael

chapter |5 pages

T. E. Hulme

chapter |3 pages

Stendhal

chapter |2 pages

Georges Rouault

chapter |7 pages

A Community of Individuals

chapter |3 pages

Picasso's “Guernica”

chapter |4 pages

Machine Æsthetic

chapter |5 pages

André Gide

chapter |4 pages

The Duality of Leonardo

chapter |13 pages

The “Areopagitica”

chapter |4 pages

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