Essays on art
Material type: TextSeries: Essays index reprint seriesPublication details: Freeport, N.Y Books for Libraries Press 1968Description: xi, 143 pISBN: 9780415742450Subject(s): ArtDDC classification: 700.8 Summary: This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author's central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics. First published in 1919, A. Clutton-Brock's reflections on the nature and function of art bear the marks of the deep anxieties following the First World War, and can thus speak to a generation similarly faced with uncertainty.Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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700.108 MIN Minor and folk deities in Indian literature and art | 700.41163 AUS/A Automatism and creative acts in the age of new psychology | 700.452110937 DAV/G Gender and body language in Roman art | 700.8 CLU/E Essays on art | 700.942 CAM Cambridge companion to the Pre-Raphaelites / | 700.942 CAM Cambridge companion to the Pre-Raphaelites / | 700.954 IND Indian art and culture |
"Reprinted from the Times literary supplement."
"Reprint of the 1919 ed."
This collection of brief but insightful essays, though always returning to the author's central conviction that the quality of artistic endeavour depends not on individuals of genius but on the attitude of the public towards art itself, examines a wide variety of unique but related issues: the relationship between natural and artistic beauty; the genius of Da Vinci and Nicholas Poussin; the influence of femininity on European art; the importance of good criticism; art as a social phenomenon; the role of the passions; and a range of associated topics.
First published in 1919, A. Clutton-Brock's reflections on the nature and function of art bear the marks of the deep anxieties following the First World War, and can thus speak to a generation similarly faced with uncertainty.
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