Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the 20th century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment.
Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the 20th century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s and an anarchist revo...
Surveying world's art, from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, this book explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throughout the history of art, and summarizes the essence of such movements as Gothic, Baroque, Impressionism, Expressionism and Surrealism.
Surveying world's art, from primitive cave-drawings to Jackson Pollock, this book explains the persistence of certain principles and aspirations throu...
