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The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures

Imagen e Idea: La Función del Arte en el Desarrollo de La Conciencia Humana

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Ensayo encaminado a enseñar cómo ver las imágenes artísticas desde el aspecto estético y, al mismo tiempo, ayudar al examen del influjo del arte en el desenvolvimiento de la conciencia humana. Aquí se afirma que la imagen procede a la idea, y no a la inversa como se ha pensado comúnmente.

249 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1955

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Herbert Read

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Sir Herbert Edward Read, (1893 - 1968) 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. Politically, Read considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris.

Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art & the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jung's collected works in English.

On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

He was the father of the well-known writer Piers Paul Read, the BBC documentary maker John Read, the BBC producer and executive Tom Read, and the art historian Ben Read.

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"Esta tesis ha representado a la conciencia humana como un pulpo de dimensiones inimaginables con tentáculos que se extienden constantemente a través de los elementos circundantes, buscando y avanzando por todos lados, sacudiéndose y contrayéndose cuando el peligro se avizora, pero dominando poco a poco su ambiente, aumentado sucesivamente el horizonte de su conocimiento y actividad. En el extremo de cada tentáculo se halla la percepción sensitiva, formadora de imagénes, del artista. Para completar la imagen, debe pensarse que nuestro monstruo sigue una dirección definida, hacia una meta no totalmente avizorada, animado por un instinto que le guía hacia una vida más plena y segura"
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