Herbert Read and Selected Works, 4-Volume Set

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Volume1
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1: The Greatest Work of Art in the World
2: Eric Gill
3: Klee
4: Lawrence of Arabia
5: "The Seven Pillars of Wisdom"
6: Art and the People
7: Henry James
8: Art and War
9: George Herbert
10: Cézanne
11: The "Prelude" in Wartime
12: Bosch and Dali
13: The Paradox of Anarchism
14: Havelock Ellis
15: The Failure of the War Books
16: William Morris
17: Ben Nicholson
18: English Prose
19: Henri Rousseau
20: The Faculty of Abstraction
21: The Last of the Bohemians
22: Art and Autarky
23: Coleridge
24: Vulgarity
25: Shelley
26: Problems of Primitive Art
27: Milton
28: Sickert
29: Film æsthetic
30: James Joyce
31: The Language of the Eye
32: Nathaniel Hawthorne
33: Gerard Manley Hopkins
34: The Poetry and Prose of Painting
35: Doctor Faustus
36: Toulouse-Lautrec
37: Wordsworth's Remorse
38: Realism and Superrealism
39: A Further Note on Superrealism
40: George Saintsbury
41: Max Liebermann
42: Art and Ethics
43: The Later Yeats
44: Socialist Realism
45: The Significance of William James
46: The Poet and the Film
47: The Message of Ruskin
48: Etruscan Art
49: Walter De La Mare
50: Jean Hélion
51: Kierkegaard
52: Indian Art
53: The Architect's Place in a Modern Society
54: D. H. Lawrence
55: Modern Chinese Painting
56: Walter Bagehot
57: The Triumph of Picasso
58: The International Situation in American Fiction
59: Roger Fry
60: Raphael
61: T. E. Hulme
62: Seurat's "la Baignade"
63: Stendhal
64: Georges Rouault
65: A Community of Individuals
66: Picasso's "Guernica"
67: Machine æsthetic
68: André Gide
69: The Duality of Leonardo
70: The "Areopagitica"
71: Envoy
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Volume2
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General Contents
Introduction
Acknowledgments
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Landscape
Upbringing
11: An English School
12: Eton and Cambridge
Characteristics
13: The Good Yeoman
14: The English Gentleman
15: A Definition of a Gentleman
16: A Natural Gentleman
17: The Old English Guise
18: The Equable Sense
19: Common Sense
20: English Youth
21: English Pride
Historical Ideals
22: Heralds of Fame
23: Retrospective Immortality
24: The Patriot King
25: Patriotic Reminiscence
26: National Brotherhood
27: The Virtues of Insularity
28: The Two Englands
29: Just Prejudice
30: A Republican Firmness
31: Filial Fears
32: Civil Liberty
33: The Institution of Juries
34: Liberty and Authority
35: The Doctrine of Eccentricity
36: Independence and Liberty
National Temper
37: The Racial Blend
38: Our Earthly Instinct
39: Grown Children
40: The English Renascence
41: The Spirit of the Reformation
42: A Christian People
43: The English Revolution
44: The Epic of John Bull
45: English Religion and Philosophy
Native Genius—Literature
46: We Too Serve Phoebus
47: These Islands My World
48: Good English Words
49: The Vulgar Tongue
50: The English Language (1)
51: The English Language (2)
52: Importations
53: English Eloquence
54: The Turn for Style
55: The First of the English
56: Town and Country Poets
57: Licensed Fooling
Native Genius—Drama
58: English Humour
59: The English Stage
Native Genius—Painting
60: The English School
61: Stay at Home
Native Genius—Music
62: An English Composer
63: English Melody
The Ultimate Ideal
64: Albion’s Land
65: The New Age
66: One Great Federation
67: England and Europe
Volume3
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Preface
Point & Contact No. 3, 1965
Whipmawhopmagate
Herbert Read: A Memoir
Herbert Read: Instead of an Elegy
On Herbert Read
A Tribute
Four Drawings
The Limits of Permissiveness in Art
A Tribute
Two Etchings and Two Drawings
Herbert Read: His Contribution to Art Education and to Education through Art
Four Sketches for Herbert Read
The Philosopher of Freedom
Four Drawings
The Borehole
Craving
An Exchange of Letters
Drowsing Over the Arabian Nights
Flower of the Mountain
Herbert Read and Byron
Herbert Read as a Literary Critic
Emigrant, to the Receding Shore
The Green Child
The Poetry of Herbert Read
Song of Honour
The Final War
Beauty—Or the Beast ? A Conversation in a Tavern
Herbert Read
A Checklist of the Herbert Read Archive in the McPherson Library of the University of Victoria
Notes on Contributors
Volume4
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Dedication
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List of Illustrations
1: On Something in Particular
2: The Art of Art Criticism
3: Gauguin: The Return to Symbolism
4: The Inspired Tinker
5: Goethe and Art
6: Naum Gabo
7: Walter Pater
8: The Writer and His Region
9: Max Stirner
10: Frank Lloyd Wright
11: Religion and Culture
12: Michelangelo and Bernini
13: The Limits of Logic
14: Baudelaire as Art Critic
15: The Image in Modern English Poetry
16: De Tocqueville on Art in America
17: Sotto Voce
18: George Lukács
19: The Romantic Revolution
20: The Sustaining Myth
21: On First Reading Nietzsche
22: The Drama and the Theatre
23: Two Notes on a Trilogy
24: C. G. Jung
25: 'The Prelude’
26: Barbara Hepworth
27: Susanne Langer
28: Henry Miller
29: 'De Stijl'
30: Ezra Pound
31: The Architect as Universal Man
32: Gandhi
33: The Enjoyment of Art
34: D’Arcy Thompson
35: A Seismographic Art
36: Tribal Art and Modern Man
37: Graham Sutherland
38: Kokoschka
39: The Problem of the Zeitgeist
40: The Faith of a Critic
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Volume5
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1: The Politics of the Unpolitical
2: The Cult of Leadership
3: Culture and Liberty
4: To Hell with Culture
5: Art in an Electric Atmosphere
6: The Vulgarity and Impotence of Contemporary Art
7: Modern Art and French Decadence
8: A Question of Life or Death
9: The Collective Patron
10: The Freedom of the Artist
11: The Nature of Revolutionary Art
12: A Civilization from Under
13: Civilization and the Sense of Quality
14: A Solemn Conclusion