Dimensions
172 x 245 x 17mm
And Other Essays on the Theory of Art
Fourth edition, revised.
'Meditations on a Hobby Horse', originally published in 1963, was the first volume in the author's long and distinguished series of collected essays. In it he addresses some of the most fundamental questions in the theory of art. Having explored, in the famous title essay, the links between the creation of images and the mentality of the child, he returns to the adult's experience of the arts in the light of the mataphors we use to describe our emotional reactions. He probes the assumptions underlying the aesthetics of Freud, Marx and the Expressionists, and discusses the traditions of medieval art, of still-life painting, cartooning, Romantic imagery and abstract painting, everywhere demonstrating the power of genuine scholarship to sort out confusions and provide novel and lasting insights.
Includes black-and-white illustrations.
