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Herbert 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 anarchis...
The Principles of Industrial Design
A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernity This book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submit...
By Herbert Read
This is a new release of the original 1945 edition....
The Function of Art in the Development of Human Consciousness
This is one of those rare books whose influence will grow rather than diminish with the years. Icon and Idea is destined to take its place beside Erns...
Presents reproductions and text discussing paintings by famous 20th century artists....
Lectures on the Social Aspects of Art in an Industrial Age
Autobiographies
Sir Herbert has combined his two previous volumes of autobiography into this new book. It begins with his childhood in Yorkshire and continues with a ...
A Study of His Life and Work
This classic text by Sir Herbert Read was first published in 1965 and, until this printing, has been unavailable for decades. Sir Herbert had written ...
Essays in Criticism
This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read’s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and theme...
"Text references" : p. 279-282. Bibliography: p. 283-285....
Psychology and Alchemy
A study of the analogies between alchemy, Christian dogma, and psychological symbolism. Revised translation, with new bibliography and index....
General Index
An exceptionally comprehensive index by paragraph numbers. Certain subjects are treated in separate sub-indexes within the General Index. These includ...
Nine essays, written between 1922 and 1941, on Paracelsus, Freud, Picasso, the sinologist Richard Wilhelm, Joyce's Ulysses, artistic creativity genera...
Alchemical Studies
Five long essays that trace Jung's developing interest in alchemy from 1929 onward. An introduction and supplement to his major works on the subject, ...
Aion Researches Into the Phenomenology of the Self
Aion, originally published in German in 1951, is one of the major works of Jung's later years. The central theme of the volume is the symbolic represe...
Styles : Cubism - Futurism - Dada - Surrealism. Painters : Picasso - Kandinsky - Klee....
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in...