The Englishness of English Art: An Expanded and Annotated Version of the Reith Lectures Broadcast in October and November 1955 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from The Englishness of English Art: An Expanded and Annotated Version of the Reith Lectures Broadcast in October and November 1955List of Illustrations page 6 Foreword page 9 I The Geography of Art page 11 2 Hogarth and Observed Life page 20 3 Reynolds and Detachment page 50 4 Perpendicular England page 81 5 Blake and the Flaming Line page 117 6 Constable and the Pursuit of Nature page 147 7 Picturesque England page 163 8 Conclusion page 181 Notes and References page 193.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.