Herbert Read – Art and Society – SIGNED First Edition 1937
£125.00
A first edition, first printing of Art and Society by Herbert Read, published by Heinemann, London in 1937. A near fine copy signed in turquoise ink by the author to the title page, boards bound in publishers original crimson cloth with debossed gilt Mexican figural circular plaque to front board, gilt titling to the spine a little tarnished, rubbing to the spine tips and corners of front and rear boards, a debossed Heinemann windmill motif to rear board, light spotting to the prelims and toning to the text block.
Art and Society presents Herbert Read’s wide-ranging examination of art’s place within communal life. Moving from prehistoric and religious art to modernism, he considers architecture, decoration, symbolism, psychology and artistic education. Read argues that great art grows from a living relationship between individual creativity and social values, while rigid ideology and industrial alienation can weaken that connection. The book remains an influential statement of his humanist, anarchist approach to culture today.
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A first edition, first printing of Art and Society by Herbert Read, published by Heinemann, London in 1937. A near fine copy signed in turquoise ink by the author to the title page, boards bound in publishers original crimson cloth with debossed gilt Mexican figural circular plaque to front board, gilt titling to the spine a little tarnished, rubbing to the spine tips and corners of front and rear boards, a debossed Heinemann windmill motif to rear board, light spotting to the prelims and toning to the text block.
Art and Society presents Herbert Read’s wide-ranging examination of art’s place within communal life. Moving from prehistoric and religious art to modernism, he considers architecture, decoration, symbolism, psychology and artistic education. Read argues that great art grows from a living relationship between individual creativity and social values, while rigid ideology and industrial alienation can weaken that connection. The book remains an influential statement of his humanist, anarchist approach to culture today.
