Purpose And Admiration A Lay Study Of The Visual Arts by Barton, J E - 1932

London England: Christophers, 1945. Hardback. Purpose and Admiration. Message to previous owner to inside covers. Underlining in pencil to a couple of pages. Couple of slight marks to cloth. Browning to spine. Black cloth with silver lettering. Contents: Introduction. History and Art. The Expression of Character. The Religious Background. The Community and the Individual. Taste and the Artisan. The Break in Tradition. Reality and the Artist. Puzzles of Modern Art. Art and the English Race. Machinery and Personality. Towards a New Civilisation. The Religion of Beauty. Index. Illustrated. 182 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions, Reference books ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Reset and Reprinted . Decorative Cloth. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.

London England: Christophers, 1945. This book attempts to give some connected view in plain language for the general reader, of those visible sides of human activity and pleasure which are included in the short, comprehensive, and confusing world, "art". These pages make no pretence to offer expert information or original criticism. They aim at helping in a general way the considerable and growing number of people who are naturally drawn to the arts, but feel at the same time how much more they might enjoy them, if they had some connecting ideas to go upon. Illustrated. 182 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions etc.). Reset and Reprinted . Decorative Cloth. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Hardback.