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Herbert Read and Selected Works includes four of Herbert Read's
most seminal works; A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays, The
English Vision: An Anthology, The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism
and The Politics of the Unpolitical. This collection also includes
the title Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium - a collection of
essays that illustrates the many different aspects and achievements
of Read's career.
This text 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. This book deals with the
everlasting problem of war and peace.
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 hugely influential thinker. It is a controversial work that engages the reader in a wide range of topics, from revolutionary art to pornography. Adept at challenging assumptions and penetrating to the heart of any issue, Read's deft prose encourages the reader to think critically, to question and to subvert the voice of authority, of whatever political or cultural creed. Only through such a critical evaluation of culture, Read believes, can one appreciate the art that arises from the 'unpolitical manifestation of the human spirit'. At a time when authority and value are questionable terms, and when culture itself is a contested concept, Read's is both a challenging and an enlightening voice.
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volume has been collated from his daily notebooks and unpublished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 as well as his introduction to Sorel's Reflections on
Violence.
In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943,
Herbert Read extends and amplifies the point 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
recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises', and looks
forward to the future with constructive vision. This book will be
of interest to students of politics, history, and cultural studies.
The Practice of Psychotherapy brings together Jung's essays on
general questions of analytic therapy and dream analysis. It also
contains his profoundly interesting parallel between the
transference phenomena and alchemical processes. The transference
is illustrated and interpreted by means of a set of symbolic
pictures, and the bond between psychotherapist and patient is shown
to be a function of the kinship libido. Far from being pathological
in its effects, kinship libido has an essential role to play in the
work of individuation and in establishing an organic society based
on the psychic connection of its members with one another and with
their own roots.
Written two years after the commencement of the Second World
War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for
reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting
capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further
afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist
civilization.
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.
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.
This title, first published in 1939, is an anthology that's aim was
to present the English ideal in its various aspects as expressed by
representative Englishmen. This book will be of interest to
students of literature and to the general reader.
Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War,
the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for
reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting
capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further
afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist
civilization.
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 recognition as a solvent of social and cultural crises', and
looks forward to the future with constructive vision. This book
will be of interest to students of politics, history, and
philosophy.
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.
This anthology, first published in 1939, aimed to present the
English ideal in its various aspects as expressed by representative
Englishmen. This book will be of interest to students of literature
and to the general reader.
Since its first appearance in 1931 Herbert Read's introduction to
the understanding of art has established itself as a classic of its
kind. It provides a basis for the appreciation of paintings,
sculpture and art-objects of all periods by defining the elements
that went into their making. A compact survey of the world's art,
from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, The Meaning of Art
explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations
throughout the history of art, and summarizes the essence of such
movements as Gothic, Baroque, Impressionism, Expressionism and
Surrealism. This new Faber Modern Classics edition features a brand
new foreword by Will Gompertz, BBC arts editor.
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.
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 as well as his introduction to Sorel's Reflections on
Violence.
Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968) was a highly influential English
critic and poet. Originally published in 1929, this volume gathers
together nine of Read's essays, with each one covering a different
author. The essays, all of which made their first appearance in The
Times Literary Supplement, are centred around the concept of
'glory' and its manifestation in works of a particularly
transcendent nature. Written in an engaging style, this book will
be of value to anyone with an interest in literature and literary
criticism.
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.
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 hugely influential thinker. It is a controversial work that engages the reader in a wide range of topics, from revolutionary art to pornography. Adept at challenging assumptions and penetrating to the heart of any issue, Read's deft prose encourages the reader to think critically, to question and to subvert the voice of authority, of whatever political or cultural creed. Only through such a critical evaluation of culture, Read believes, can one appreciate the art that arises from the 'unpolitical manifestation of the human spirit'. At a time when authority and value are questionable terms, and when culture itself is a contested concept, Read's is both a challenging and an enlightening voice.
This is the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In nine
richly illustrated chapters Chiang Yee 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 the great
calligraphers. Speech and writing are two organs of the same human
impulse--the conveyance of thought: the one operating through
hearing, the other through sight; the one by sound from mouth to
ear, the other by form or image from hand to eye. But each can do
something besides convey thought. Spoken words can be so arranged
as to discharge aesthetic musical significances, as in much Western
poetry. Written words can be formed to liberate visual beauties;
and it is these which form the subject of this book. In addition to
aesthetic considerations, the text deals with such more practical
subjects as the origin and construction of the Chinese characters,
styles, technique, strokes, composition, training, and the
relations between calligraphy and other forms of Chinese art. For
the third edition the author has added two new chapters:
Calligraphy and Painting discusses the dependence of Chinese
painting on calligraphic training and techniques; Aesthetic
Principles explores the fundamental concepts underlying every
Chinese art form. Chinese Calligraphy is a superb appreciation of
beauty in the movement of strokes and in the patterns of
structure--and an inspiration to amateurs as well as professionals
interested in the decorative arts.
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