by Herbert Read · FisicalBook · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788426571472
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«El significado del arte» is Herbert Read's essay on art criticism, published in 1974 in paperback (264 pages, in Spanish).
The book brings together short chapters in which the author condenses the essential concepts for approaching the work of art. It deals with the definition of art, the relationship between art and beauty, intuition, form and expression, and the evolution of aesthetics, with an open and non-dogmatic outlook.
The edition is part of the Historia del Arte series, with an introduction, notes and final supplement by José de Castro Arines.
Suitable for readers who want to begin appreciating the visual arts and the basic concepts of aesthetics.
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.
