According to the preface, the book began as articles contributed to The Listener, a British weekly literary journal, from which Sir Herbert Read selected paragraphs from and reordered to create a sustainable essay-like introduction. The book, as a foundation for the appreciation of art, covers paintings, sculptures, and art-objects of all periods as well as the definitions of the various elements that contribute to their being. The book also includes 71 illustrations.
Onsite
English
1972
280
9780571096589
1
monograph, 
essay
I
Definition of Art
The sense of beauty
Definition of Beauty
Distinction between Art and Beauty
Art as Intuition
The Classical Ideal
Art not Uniform
Art and Aesthetics
Form and Expression
The Golden Section
Limitations of Geometrical Harmony
Distortion
Pattern
The Personal Element
Definition of Pattern
Definition of Form
What Happens When We Look at a Picture
Empathy
Sentimentality
The Necessity of Form
Content
Art without Content: Pottery
Abstract Art
Humanistic Art: the Portrait
Psychological Values
The Elements of a Work of Art
Line
Tone
Colour
Form
Unity
Structural Motives
II
Primitive Art
Bushman Paintings
Significance of Primitive Art
Organic and Geometrical Art
Fusion of Organic and Geometrical Principles
Art and Religion
Art and Humanism
Peasant Art
National Art: Eygpt
Coptic Art
The Pyramids
Egyptian Sculpture
Pre-Columbian Art
Origin of Historical Types
Chinese Art
Persian Art
Byzantine Art
Celtic Art
The Approach to Christian Art
Material and Immaterial Forces
The Influence of the Church
Gothic Art
English Gothic
Renaissance Art
Drawings of the Italian Masters
The Art of Drawing
Intellectual Art
Realism
Textual and Representational Realism
Naturalism
Rubens
El Greco
Baroque and Rococo
Definition of Baroque
Definition of Rococo
The Essence of Rococo
Landscape Painting
The English Tradition
Gainsborough
Blake
Turner
Art and Nature
Constable
Delacroix
The Impressionists
Renoir
Cezanne
Van Gogh
Gauguin
Henri Rousseau
Picasso
Chagall
The Racial Factor
Lyricism and Symbolism
Expressionism and Idealism
The Expressionist Movement
Kandinsky
'The Bridge' and the 'Blue Rider' Groups
Paul Klee
Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Tachism
Modern Sculpture
Henry Moore
Barbara Hepworth
III
The Artist's Point of View
Tolstoy's Point of View
Tolstoy and Wordsworth
Another Point of View: Matisse
Communication: Feeling and Understanding
Art and Society
The Will-to-Form
The Ultimate Values
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