by Herbert Read · AIMERY SOMOGY · tapa dura · ISBN 9781125909461
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«Histoire de la peinture moderne» is Herbert Read's art history essay, published by Aimery Somogy in hardback (381 pages, in French).
Herbert Read analyses modern painting through its works, with an extensive visual apparatus that allows the evolution of styles and artists to be followed. The volume includes 485 reproductions, a hundred of them in colour, and combines the historical journey with the constant presence of the reproduced images.
It belongs to the collection «Le livre de poche : Série art». The cover shows a grid of modern painting reproductions and the title on the front.
Aimed at art history readers seeking a classic, richly illustrated reference edition on modern painting.
Sir Herbert Edward Read, was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.
