ABSTRACT

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.

chapter 1|4 pages

On Something in Particular

chapter 2|25 pages

The Art of Art Criticism

chapter 3|7 pages

Gauguin: The Return to Symbolism

chapter 4|6 pages

The Inspired Tinker

chapter 5|9 pages

Goethe and Art

chapter 6|6 pages

Naum Gabo

chapter 7|8 pages

Walter Pater

chapter 8|8 pages

The Writer and His Region

chapter 9|8 pages

Max Stirner

chapter 10|8 pages

Frank Lloyd Wright

chapter 11|7 pages

Religion and Culture

chapter 12|9 pages

Michelangelo and Bernini

chapter 13|7 pages

The Limits of Logic

chapter 14|4 pages

Baudelaire as Art Critic

chapter 15|21 pages

The Image in Modern English Poetry

chapter 16|8 pages

De Tocqueville on Art in America

chapter 17|10 pages

Sotto Voce: A Plea for Intimacy

chapter 18|6 pages

George Lukács

chapter 19|9 pages

The Romantic Revolution

chapter 20|2 pages

The Sustaining Myth

chapter 21|8 pages

On First Reading Nietzsche

chapter 22|8 pages

The Drama and the Theatre

chapter 23|8 pages

Two Notes on a Trilogy

chapter 24|18 pages

C. G. Jung

chapter 25|13 pages

‘The Prelude'

chapter 26|11 pages

Barbara Hepworth

chapter 27|11 pages

Susanne Langer

chapter 28|6 pages

Henry Miller

chapter 29|4 pages

‘De Stijl'

chapter 30|15 pages

Ezra Pound

chapter 31|9 pages

The Architect as Universal Man

chapter 32|4 pages

Gandhi

chapter 33|5 pages

The Enjoyment of Art

chapter 34|4 pages

D' Arcy Thompson

chapter 35|7 pages

A Seismographic Art

chapter 36|6 pages

Tribal Art and Modern Man

chapter 37|3 pages

Graham Sutherland

chapter 38|3 pages

Kokoschka

chapter 39|6 pages

The Problem of the Zeitgeist1

chapter 40|7 pages

The Faith of a Critic