by Herbert Read · Faber & Faber · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571096589
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«The Meaning of Art» is Herbert Read's essay on art criticism, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (280 pages, in English).
Herbert Read examines the elements that make up painting and sculpture and traces a panorama of art from the caves to Jackson Pollock, explaining what characterizes movements such as Gothic, Baroque, Impressionism, Expressionism, Surrealism and Tachisme.
Work originally published in 1954; this 1984 edition is a new revised edition.
Intended for art students and enthusiasts who want an introduction to artistic appreciation.
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.
