by Herbert Read · Ediciones Península, Colección Ediciones de Bolsillo / Arte nº 4, 1977, Barcelona. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788429708813
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«Arte y sociedad» is Herbert Read's essay on art and society, published by Ediciones Península in paperback (215 pages, in Spanish).
Herbert Read studies the relationship between artistic creation and social context, and how art forms and political structures evolve in parallel. He argues that artistic expression does not depend solely on personal preferences and examines the function of art in regimes such as Soviet socialism and Italian fascism.
Work published in the Ediciones de Bolsillo Collection, Art series, number 4, translated by Manuel Carbonell.
Of interest to readers of art theory, cultural sociology and political thought.
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.
