The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism

by Herbert Read

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138913981
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/07/2016
Series:	Routledge Revivals: Herbert Read and Selected Works
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

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; Notes