A coat of many colours : occasional essays / / Herbert Read

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910800179603321
• Autore: Read Herbert <1893-1968., >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2015
• ISBN: 1-315-69127-2; 1-317-42962-1; 1-317-42961-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
• Collana: Routledge Revivals
• Disciplina: 824.912
• Soggetti: English essays - 20th century; English essays
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: First published in 1947 by Routledge.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. THE GREATEST WORK OF ART IN THE WORLD; 2. ERIC GILL; 3. KLEE; 4. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; 5. ""THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM""; 6. ART AND THE PEOPLE; 7. HENRY JAMES; 8. ART AND WAR; 9. GEORGE HERBERT; 10. CÉZANNE; 11. THE ""PRELUDE"" IN WARTIME; 12. BOSCH AND DALI; 13. THE PARADOX OF ANARCHISM; 14. HAVELOCK ELLIS; 15. THE FAILURE OF THE WAR BOOKS; 16. WILLIAM MORRIS; 17. BEN NICHOLSON; 18. ENGLISH PROSE; 19. HENRI ROUSSEAU; 20. THE FACULTY OF ABSTRACTION; 21. THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS; 22. ART AND AUTARKY23. COLERIDGE; 24. VULGARITY; 25. SHELLEY; 26. PROBLEMS OF PRIMITIVE ART; 27. MILTON; 28. SICKERT; 29. FILM ÆSTHETIC; 30. JAMES JOYCE; 31. THE LANGUAGE OF THE EYE; 32. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE; 33. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS; 34. THE POETRY AND PROSE OF PAINTING; 35. DOCTOR FAUSTUS; 36. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC; 37. WORDSWORTH'S REMORSE; 38. REALISM AND SUPERREALISM; 39. A FURTHER NOTE ON SUPERREALISM; 40. GEORGE SAINTSBURY; 41. MAX LIEBERMANN; 42. ART AND ETHICS; 43. THE LATER YEATS; 44. SOCIALIST REALISM; 45. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WILLIAM JAMES; 46. THE POET AND THE FILM; 47. THE MESSAGE OF RUSKIN48. ETRUSCAN ART; 49. WALTER DE LA ; MARE; 50. JEAN HÉLION; 51. KIERKEGAARD; 52. INDIAN ART; 53. THE ARCHITECT'S PLACE IN A MODERN SOCIETY; 54. D. H. LAWRENCE; 55. MODERN CHINESE PAINTING; 56. WALTER BAGEHOT; 57. THE TRIUMPH OF PICASSO; 58. THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN AMERICAN FICTION; 59. ROGER FRY; 60. RAPHAEL; 61. T. E. HULME; 62. SEURAT'S ""LA BAIGNADE""; 63. STENDHAL; 64. GEORGES ROUAULT; 65. A COMMUNITY OF INDIVIDUALS; 66. PICASSO'S ""GUERNICA""; 67. MACHINE ÆSTHETIC; 68. ANDRÉ GIDE; 69. THE DUALITY OF LEONARDO; 70. THE ""AREOPAGITICA""; 71. ENVOY; NOTES
• Sommario/riassunto: <P>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. </P>