The art of Sculpture

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THE ART OF SCULPTURE by H E RBE RT READ THE A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS FOR 1954 The aim of this book is to give an aesthetic of the art of sculpture, which, in its author's view, has in the past too often submitted to the rule of architecture or painting. In our own time, there has arisen an awareness of the essential and autonomous natúré of sculpture - "form in its full spatial completeness," in the words of the British sculptor Henry Moore. The author seeks to give historical support and theoretical extension to such a conception. Illustrated with 224 gravure plates depicting greai works of sculpture from prehistoric times to the present, many of them photographed expressly for this volume by the British photographer F. L. Kenett. Sir Herbert Read, who died in June 1968, was well known in America as a poet and a writer on the visual arts, literature, and education. He was President of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and of the Society of Education in Art,... Tovább

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THE ART OF SCULPTURE by H E RBE RT READ THE A. W. MELLON LECTURES IN THE FINE ARTS FOR 1954 The aim of this book is to give an aesthetic of the art of sculpture, which, in its author's view, has in the past too often submitted to the rule of architecture or painting. In our own time, there has arisen an awareness of the essential and autonomous natúré of sculpture - "form in its full spatial completeness," in the words of the British sculptor Henry Moore. The author seeks to give historical support and theoretical extension to such a conception. Illustrated with 224 gravure plates depicting greai works of sculpture from prehistoric times to the present, many of them photographed expressly for this volume by the British photographer F. L. Kenett. Sir Herbert Read, who died in June 1968, was well known in America as a poet and a writer on the visual arts, literature, and education. He was President of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and of the Society of Education in Art, and one of the Editors of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung and of the Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, as well as adviser to the Editors of the Collected Works of Sámuel Taylor Coleridge. "Few critics write history at all, but this book is very good history. Within its field it is a systematic and almost invariably exact record. As a history, it will surely remain more useful to more people than anything else on the subject." -LAWRENCE GOWING, New Statesman Vissza