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  • Memoirs of the Flight Surgeon of HMS Nabob

    by Charles Herbert Read, Jr. ...
    In the evening dusk of August 22, 1944, during an intense battle off the Norwegian coast, the HMS Nabob, one of the two Canadian-crewed aircraft carriers in the Second World War was struck by a torpedo on the starboard side. Among the souls on board was Dr. Charles Read Jr., a young flight surgeon who needed to draw upon every bit of his training and skills to fight against seemingly impossible ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Chinese Calligraphy

    An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique, Third Revised and Enlarged Edition

    by Yee Chiang ...
    Chiang Yee’s Chinese Calligraphy: An Introduction to Its Aesthetic and Technique remains the classic introduction to Chinese calligraphy. In eleven richly illustrated chapters, Chiang explores the aesthetics and the technique of this art in which rhythm, line, and structure are perfectly embodied. He measures the slow change from pictograph to stroke to the style and shape of written characters by ... Read more

    $24.49 USD

  • To Hell With Culture

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    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 anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out this seminal and ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • The Meaning of Art

    by Herbert Read ...
    Delve into the profound and transformative world of visual aesthetics with Herbert Read's seminal work, "The Meaning of Art." This classic text, written by one of the 20th century's most influential art critics and philosophers, offers a comprehensive and accessible exploration of the nature and significance of art across various cultures and historical periods.In "The Meaning of Art," Read ... Read more

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  • A Dictionary of Symbols

    Revised and Expanded Edition

    by Juan Eduardo Cirlot, Victoria Cirlot ...
    Translated by Valerie Miles, Jack Sage ...
    This classic book of symbols by Catalan polymath Joan Cirlot illuminates the symbolic underpinnings of myth, modern psychology, literature, and art.“Guides us through what unites us across nations, religions, and literary and artistic traditions.” —Angelica Frey, HyperallergicJuan Eduardo Cirlot’s A Dictionary of Symbols is a feat of scholarship, an act of the imagination, and a tool for ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • A Coat of Many Colours

    Occasional Essays

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    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. ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • Programme for Victory (Works of Harold J. Laski)

    by Harold J. Laski, Harold Nicolson, Herbert Read, W. M. Macmillan, Ellen Wilkinson, G. D. H. Cole ...
    Series series The Works of Harold J. Laski
    Written two years after the commencement of the Second World War, the chapters in this book succinctly put forward the case for reorganizing the foundations of the social order, by rejecting capitalism and historical equilibrium, both in Europe and further afield in the British Empire, in favour of building a Socialist civilization. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Speculations

    Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art

    Edited by Herbert Read ...
    Series series International Library of Philosophy
    First published in 2000. This is Volume III of seven in the Library of Philosophy series on Philosophy of Religion and General Philosophy. Written in 1924, this is a collection of essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art by Thomas Hulme who published five poems as well as commentary and various articles. The current volume has been collated from his daily notebooks and unpublished manuscripts ... Read more

    $77.99 USD

  • The English Vision

    An Anthology

    Edited by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    This anthology, first published in 1939, aimed to present the English ideal in its various aspects as expressed by representative Englishmen. This book will be of interest to students of literature and to the general reader. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Politics of the Unpolitical

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    In this collection of fourteen essays, first published in 1943, Herbert Read extends and amplifies the points of view expressed in his successful pamphlet To Hell with Culture, which has been reprinted here. The ‘politics of the unpolitical’ are the politics of those who strive for human values and not for national or sectional interests. Herbert Read defines these values and demands their ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • The Tenth Muse

    Essays in Criticism

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
    This book, first published in 1957, is a collection of Herbert Read’s essays on various topics. The essays explore many different subjects and themes, including art, literature, religion and philosophy. This title will be of interest to a variety of readers. ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Art of Sculpture

    by Herbert Read ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    A stunning visual history of sculpture from prehistory through modernityThis book presents an aesthetic of sculptural art, which has too often submitted to the rule of architecture and painting. Herbert Read emphasizes the essential and autonomous nature of sculpture—“Form in its full spatial completeness,” in the words of British sculptor Henry Moore. The Art of Sculpture provides historical ... Read more

    $35.99 USD