詩から美術批評へ(1) : ハーバート・リードの美学的源泉(2)

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To the end of his life Herbert Read (1893-1968) regarded himself primarily as a poet. But his books on visual arts are more numerous than the whole of his other forms of writing. He thinks that art criticism is a literary activity, for it is the expression of his real self. There are two main aspects of relations between his work of poetry and art criticism. First, the characteristic of his poems, for example, those in his first collection of poems, Songs of Chaos (1915), is naivety, evoking the simplicity of a child's eye. It is , in his view, the very feature of works of modern art. Secondly, in any circumstances Read feels the hunger for beauty and he attempts "to build a Heaven in Hell's despair". It is such a complete transformation or a combination of the things opposed to each other that the artists of modern art try to reconstruct.
宇都宮大学の論文
2003-03-01