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Author Read, Herbert, 1893-1968.

Title A coat of many colours : occasional essays / Herbert Read.

Publication Info. Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 352 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Routledge revivials
Routledge revivals.
Note "First published in 1947 by Routledge"--Title page verso
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 350-352).
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; Table of Contents; 1. THE GREATEST WORK OF ART IN THE WORLD; 2. ERIC GILL; 3. KLEE; 4. LAWRENCE OF ARABIA; 5. ""THE SEVEN PILLARS OF WISDOM""; 6. ART AND THE PEOPLE; 7. HENRY JAMES; 8. ART AND WAR; 9. GEORGE HERBERT; 10. CÉZANNE; 11. THE ""PRELUDE"" IN WARTIME; 12. BOSCH AND DALI; 13. THE PARADOX OF ANARCHISM; 14. HAVELOCK ELLIS; 15. THE FAILURE OF THE WAR BOOKS; 16. WILLIAM MORRIS; 17. BEN NICHOLSON; 18. ENGLISH PROSE; 19. HENRI ROUSSEAU; 20. THE FACULTY OF ABSTRACTION; 21. THE LAST OF THE BOHEMIANS.
22. art and autarky23. coleridge; 24. vulgarity; 25. shelley; 26. problems of primitive art; 27. milton; 28. sickert; 29. film æsthetic; 30. james joyce; 31. the language of the eye; 32. nathaniel hawthorne; 33. gerard manley hopkins; 34. the poetry and prose of painting; 35. doctor faustus; 36. toulouse-lautrec; 37. wordsworth's remorse; 38. realism and superrealism; 39. a further note on superrealism; 40. george saintsbury; 41. max liebermann; 42. art and ethics; 43. the later yeats; 44. socialist realism; 45. the significance of william james; 46. the poet and the film.
47. the message of ruskin48. etruscan art; 49. walter de la mare; 50. jean hélion; 51. kierkegaard; 52. indian art; 53. the architect's place in a modern society; 54. d. h. lawrence; 55. modern chinese painting; 56. walter bagehot; 57. the triumph of picasso; 58. the international situation in american fiction; 59. roger fry; 60. raphael; 61. t. e. hulme; 62. seurat's ""la baignade""; 63. stendhal; 64. georges rouault; 65. a community of individuals; 66. picasso's ""guernica""; 67. machine æsthetic; 68. andré gide; 69. the duality of leonardo; 70. the ""areopagitica""; 71. envoy; notes.
Summary 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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Language English.
Subject English essays -- 20th century.
English essays.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968. Coat of many colours. Abingdon, Oxon : New York, NY : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2015 1138913618 (OCoLC)898910267
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