A Coat of Many Colours
eBook - ePub

A Coat of Many Colours

Occasional Essays

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Coat of Many Colours

Occasional Essays

About this book

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.

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Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2015
Print ISBN
9781138913615
eBook ISBN
9781317429616
Edition
1
Topic
Art

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Original Copyright Page
  6. Table of Contents
  7. 1. THE GREATEST WORK OF ART IN THE WORLD
  8. 2. ERIC GILL
  9. 3. KLEE
  10. 4. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA
  11. 5. “THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM”
  12. 6. ART AND THE PEOPLE
  13. 7. HENRY JAMES
  14. 8. ART AND WAR
  15. 9. GEORGE HERBERT
  16. 10. CÉZANNE
  17. 11. THE “PRELUDE” IN WARTIME
  18. 12. BOSCH AND DALI
  19. 13. THE PARADOX OF ANARCHISM
  20. 14. HAVELOCK ELLIS
  21. 15. THE FAILURE OF THE WAR BOOKS
  22. 16. WILLIAM MORRIS
  23. 17. BEN NICHOLSON
  24. 18. ENGLISH PROSE
  25. 19. HENRI ROUSSEAU
  26. 20. THE FACULTY OF ABSTRACTION
  27. 21. THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS
  28. 22. ART AND AUTARKY
  29. 23. COLERIDGE
  30. 24. VULGARITY
  31. 25. SHELLEY
  32. 26. PROBLEMS OF PRIMITIVE ART
  33. 27. MILTON
  34. 28. SICKERT
  35. 29. FILM ÆSTHETIC
  36. 30. JAMES JOYCE
  37. 31. THE LANGUAGE OF THE EYE
  38. 32. NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE
  39. 33. GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS
  40. 34. THE POETRY AND PROSE OF PAINTING
  41. 35. DOCTOR FAUSTUS
  42. 36. TOULOUSE-LAUTREC
  43. 37. WORDSWORTH’S REMORSE
  44. 38. REALISM AND SUPERREALISM
  45. 39. A FURTHER NOTE ON SUPERREALISM
  46. 40. GEORGE SAINTSBURY
  47. 41. MAX LIEBERMANN
  48. 42. ART AND ETHICS
  49. 43. THE LATER YEATS
  50. 44. SOCIALIST REALISM
  51. 45. THE SIGNIFICANCE OF WILLIAM JAMES
  52. 46. THE POET AND THE FILM
  53. 47. THE MESSAGE OF RUSKIN
  54. 48. ETRUSCAN ART
  55. 49. WALTER DE LA MARE
  56. 50. JEAN HÉLION
  57. 51. KIERKEGAARD
  58. 52. INDIAN ART
  59. 53. THE ARCHITECT’S PLACE IN A MODERN SOCIETY
  60. 54. D. H. LAWRENCE
  61. 55. MODERN CHINESE PAINTING
  62. 56. WALTER BAGEHOT
  63. 57. THE TRIUMPH OF PICASSO
  64. 58. THE INTERNATIONAL SITUATION IN AMERICAN FICTION
  65. 59. ROGER FRY
  66. 60. RAPHAEL
  67. 61. T. E. HULME
  68. 62. SEURAT’S “LA BAIGNADE”
  69. 63. STENDHAL
  70. 64. GEORGES ROUAULT
  71. 65. A COMMUNITY OF INDIVIDUALS
  72. 66. PICASSO’S “GUERNICA”
  73. 67. MACHINE ÆSTHETIC
  74. 68. ANDRÉ GIDE
  75. 69. THE DUALITY OF LEONARDO
  76. 70. THE “AREOPAGITICA”
  77. 71. ENVOY
  78. NOTES