The Last Lectures by Roger Fry

Originally published in 1939, this book contains lectures by Roger Fry covering a wide range of artistic styles.

Roger Fry (Author), Kenneth Clark (Introduction by)

9781107505681, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 21 May 2015

402 pages
24.6 x 19 x 2.2 cm, 0.79 kg

Originally published in 1939, this book contains a series of unfinished lectures written by Roger Fry, the Slade Professor of Fine Arts at the University of Cambridge. Fry's lectures cover a wide range of artistic styles, from the art of Ancient Greece and Egypt to American and Chinese art, as well as a review of art history as an academic study. The text is accompanied by over three hundred photographic plates of many important artworks. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in art history.

Introduction
1. Art-history as an academic study
2. Sensibility
3. Vitality
4. Egyptian art
5. Mesopotamian and Aegean art
6. Negro art
7. American art
8. Chinese art
9. Indian art
10. Greek art
Illustrations
Index.

Subject Areas: The arts: general issues [AB]