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  • To Hell With Culture

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s, and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out this seminal and ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Art

    by Herbert Read ...
    Delve into the profound and transformative world of visual aesthetics with Herbert Read's seminal work, "The Meaning of Art." This classic text, written by one of the 20th century's most influential art critics and philosophers, offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the nature and significance of art across various cultures and historical periods.In "The Meaning of Art," Read ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Tenth Muse (Routledge Revivals)

    Essays in Criticism

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read’s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Art of Sculpture

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernityThis book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submitted to the rule of architecture and painting. Herbert Read emphasizes the essential and autonomous nature of sculpture—“Form in its full spatial completeness,” in the words of British sculptor Henry Moore. The Art of Sculpture provides historical ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • A Coat of Many Colours

    Occasional Essays

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    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. ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Unpolitical

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the points of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, which has been reprinted here. The ‘politics of the unpolitical’ are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Education for Peace (RLE Edu K)

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book deals with the everlasting problem of war and peace. In it, the author argues that mankind must be predisposed for peace by the right kind of education and he discusses how to devise methods of education which will prevent war. ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists (Expanded, Updated) (World of Art)

    Edited by Herbert Read ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    "Excellent, concise . . . highly recommended." —ChoiceThis extensively illustrated dictionary provides information on over 2,500 artists, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, schools and movements throughout the world, including entries on contemporary art and artists, techniques, materials, terms, and writers who have influenced artists. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 1

    Psychiatric Studies

    by C. G. Jung ...
    Translated by R. F. C. Hull ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    The authoritative edition of early psychiatric studies by Jung, which foreshadow much of his later workPsychiatric Studies gathers writings on descriptive and experimental psychiatry that Jung published between 1902 and 1905, early in his career as a psychiatrist. The book opens with a study that foreshadows much of his later work and is indispensable to all serious students of his psychiatric ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

  • Speculations

    Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art

    Edited by Herbert Read ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    First published in 2000. This is Volume III of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written in 1924, this is a collection of essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art by Thomas Hulme who published five poems as well as commentary and various articles. The current volume has been collated from his daily notebooks and unpublished manuscripts ... Read more

    $82.99 USD

  • Aesthetics

    The Collected Works of Paul Valéry, Volume 13

    by Paul Valéry ...
    Translated by Ralph Manheim ...
    Series series Bollingen Recollections
    A collection of Valéry’s writings on the making of “works of the mind”—in art, philosophy, history, and scienceFor Paul Valéry, art consisted of all that the mind makes for its own pleasure and use, not only works of art in the usual sense but also philosophy, history, and the pure sciences—in his words, all the “works of the mind.” This volume presents the opening lecture of his “Course in ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Chinese Calligraphy

    An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

    by Yee Chiang ...
    Chiang Yee’s Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique remains the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In eleven richly illustrated chapters, Chiang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measures the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by ... Read more

    $24.49 USD