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.

 

Access level

Onsite

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Location code
REF.REH3
Language

English

Keyword
Publication/Creation date

1972

No of pages

280

ISBN / ISSN

9780571096589

No of copies

1

Content type

monograph, 

essay

Chapter headings

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

The Meaning of Art
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The Meaning of Art