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To Hell With Culture by Herbert Read
Booksplease Price: £15.34Herbert 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... -
The Politics of the Unpolitical by Herbert Read
RRP: £38.99Booksplease Price: £37.14In 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... -
Education for Peace by Herbert Read
RRP: £52.99Booksplease Price: £49.89This 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... -
The Art of Sculpture by Herbert Read 9780691251844
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £36.63A 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... -
The English Vision: An Anthology by Herbert Read
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This 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... -
Herbert Read: A Memorial Symposium by Malahat Review 9781138914872
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69As a poet and critic of art and literature, and as a social and political philosopher, Sir Herbert Read exerted an important influence on the culture of his time. Not only did he assist and inspire... -
The Meaning of Art: Faber Modern Classics by Herbert Read
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Since 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,... -
The Sense of Glory: Essays in Criticism by Herbert Read 9781107605886
Booksplease Price: £35.47Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art by Herbert Read
RRP: £58.99Booksplease Price: £54.98First 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... -
Herbert Read: The Stream and the Source by George Woodcock 9781551643182
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551643182Author George WoodcockFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint -
The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism by Herbert Read 9781138913981
RRP: £46.99Booksplease Price: £43.94This 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... -
A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read
Booksplease Price: £20.14This 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... -
A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays by Herbert Read 9781138913615
Booksplease Price: £52.18This 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... -
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Modern Sculpture: A Concise History by Herbert Read 9780500200148 [USED COPY]
RRP: £9.95Booksplease Price: £3.30Drawing on the knowledge of a lifetime of study, and the understanding of one who himself participated in the creative adventure of modern art, the late Sir Herbert Read traces the development of... -
Paul Klee on Modern Art: Introduction by Herbert Read by Paul Klee 9780571066827
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Paul Klee on Modern Art, with an introduction by Herbert Read, represents the essential collection of thinking about art from one of the last century's most influential artists.Paul Klee on Modern... -
A certain order: the development of Herbert Read's theory of poetry by Worth Travis Harder 9783110992014
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £68.54No detailed description available for "A certain order".Book InformationISBN 9783110992014Author Worth Travis HarderFormat HardbackPage Count 164Imprint -
Interpretation of Art: Essays on the Art Criticism of John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Clive Bell, Roger Fry, and Herbert Read by Solomon Fishman 9780520302815
RRP: £34.00Booksplease Price: £31.29Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Artwriting, Nation, and Cosmopolitanism in Britain: The 'Englishness' of English Art Theory since the Eighteenth Century by Mark A. Cheetham 9781138254534
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Arguing in favour of renewed critical attention to the 'nation' as a category in art history, this study examines the intertwining of art theory, national identity and art production in Britain from... -
The Archetypal Artist: Reimagining Creativity and the Call to Create by Mary Antonia Wood
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £33.24In this thoughtful and revelatory book, Wood explores enduring and powerful theories on art, creativity, and what Jung called the "creative spirit" in order to illuminate how artists can truly... -
Curriculum, Culture, and Art Education: Comparative Perspectives by Kerry Freedman 9781438499147
Booksplease Price: £27.36Through international case studies, this book explores the causes and effects of historical and contemporary cultural changes in art education.A general broadening of content and methods, a renewed... -
Affective Materialities: Reorienting the Body in Modernist Literature by Kara Watts 9780813056289
RRP: £68.00Booksplease Price: £55.00Affective Materialities breaks ground by reexamining modernist theorizations of the body, opening up artistic, political, and ethical possibilities at the intersection of affect theory and... -
Letters of C. G. Jung: Volume I, 1906-1950 by C. G. Jung
Booksplease Price: £81.34In May 1956, in his eighty-second year, Jung first discussed with Gerhard Adler the question of the publication of his letters. Over many years, Jung had often used the medium of letters to... -
Does Pornography Matter? by C H Rolph 9781032561028
Booksplease Price: £110.39First published in 1961, Does Pornography Matter? consists of chapters written by seven men who were likely to have different points of view, and who would write with authority from the interest they... -
Does Pornography Matter? C H Rolph 9781032564456
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £29.49First published in 1961, Does Pornography Matter? consists of chapters written by seven men who were likely to have different points of view, and who would write with authority from the interest they... -
Sociology as an Art Form Robert Nisbet 9780765807564
RRP: £50.99Booksplease Price: £48.18"One of our most original social thinkers," according to the New York Times, Robert Nisbet offers a new approach to sociology. He shows that sociology is indeed an art form, one that has a strong... -
Surrealism in Britain Michael Remy 9780367145736
RRP: £33.99Booksplease Price: £32.89This book was originally published in 1999, and is the first comprehensive study of the British surrealist movement and its achievements. Lavishly illustrated, the book provides a year-by-year... -
The Psycho-Analysis Of Artistic Vision And Hearing: An Introduction to a Theory of Unconscious Perception Anton Ehrenzweig 9781138874961
RRP: £57.99Booksplease Price: £54.14This book deals with the inarticulate form elements hidden in the unconscious structure of a work of art or-what comes to the same thing - with the unconscious structure of the perception processes... -
Aa is for Aesthetic: Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education by Peter Abbs
Booksplease Price: £16.19This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist... -
Nietzsche: Imagery and Thought: A Collection of Essays by Urs Fuhrer
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The central theme of this collection of essays, first published in 1978, is the basic tension in Nietzsche, and so in his work, between the urge to weave a satisfying web out of reality and the... -
Meaning in the Arts by Louis Arnaud Reid 9780415606585
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63This is Volume II of three in a collection on Aesthetics. Originally published in 1969, this volume of the Muirhead library of philosophy. After distinguishing, and relating, the functions of... -
The Educational Imperative: A Defence Of Socratic And Aesthetic Learning Peter Abbs 9780750703338
RRP: £51.99Booksplease Price: £49.04Written with both the cultural and moral crisis and the challenge of the future in mind, Peter Abbs's book charts an open, clear, and positive way forward for education. Divided into four sections,... -
Aa is for Aesthetic: Essays on Creative and Aesthetic Education by Peter Abbs 9780415695794
Booksplease Price: £54.29This volume reaffirms the indispensable place of the arts in any coherent curriculum. The author hopes that the specific arguments formulated in the book will advance the conservationist... -
Darwin and the Naked Lady: Discursive Essays on Biology and Art by Alex Comfort 9780415853019
RRP: £23.99Booksplease Price: £23.54Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses... -
Darwin and the Naked Lady: Discursive Essays on Biology and Art by Alex Comfort
Booksplease Price: £70.29Originally published in 1961. The essays in this volume focus on the awareness of science and art, evolution and Freudian psychology. Besides the chapter on Darwin and Freud, the author discusses... -
Programme for Victory (Works of Harold J. Laski) by Harold J. Laski
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69Written 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... -
Spenser and Literary Pictorialism by John B. Bender 9780691619637
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Focusing, framing, scanning--the language of film--and Gombrich's studies in the psychology of perception are used by John Bender to isolate pictorial effects and devices in literature. The theory... -
The Matrix of Modernism: Pound, Eliot, and Early Twentieth-Century Thought by Sanford Schwartz 9780691604374
RRP: £38.00Booksplease Price: £32.82Sanford Schwartz situates Modernist poetics in the intellectual ferment of the early twentieth century, which witnessed major developments in philosophy, science, and the arts. Beginning with the... -
Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob by Jr Charles Read 9780995006089
RRP: £18.49Booksplease Price: £9.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995006089Author Charles Herbert Read, JrFormat PaperbackPage Count 180 -
Poetic Art of W.H. Auden John G. Blair 9780691623665
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £29.02Attempts to isolate and describe the characteristic poetic mode in which Auden has worked for more than thirty years. Originally published in 1965. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest... -
Modern Art And Modernism: A Critical Anthology by Francis Frascina 9780064301244
RRP: £55.99Booksplease Price: £52.44Modern Art and Modernism offers firsthand material for the study of issues central to the development of modern art, its theory, and criticism. The history of modern art is not simply a history of...