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Princeton University Press, Published 1977. Paperback, 152 pp.; 23 cm; first Princeton/Bollingen paperback printing of the second edition; with 224 full-page black-and-white plates.
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In Very Good condition. Glossy pictorial paper covers with a small nick to the bottom edge of the front cover at the spine, light bumping and creasing to edges and corners, mild overall shelf wear; binding tight, pages clean and unmarked. Herbert Read's study of the aesthetics of sculpture as a distinct art, delivered as the 1954 A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts at the National Gallery of Art. Ranging without chronological restriction from prehistoric and archaic work to Rodin and the moderns, Read examines the qualities unique to sculptural objects, the image of man, the apprehension of mass and space, and the play of movement and light, illustrated by 224 full-page plates that amount to a visual history of the art. Dedicated to Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, and Henry Moore. Contents: The Monument and the Amulet; The Image of Man; The Discovery of Space; The Realization of Mass; The Illusion of Movement; The Impact of Light; Plates; Index.