Tan cloth binding with black title on the spine.

Contains ‘The Saturday Review’ letter to Anthony Bertram and his signature.

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For conditions, please view our photographs. A nice clean rare unique book from the library gathered by the famous Cambridge Don, computer scientist, food and wine connoisseur, Jack Arnold LANG.

As can be seen, this is a pre-publication edition forwarded by the Saturday Review in 1927 to Mr Bartram for comments. Some of Mr Bartram’s observations were included in subsequent publications.

Includes for example: Religious and non-religious art/ Architecture as Typical Art/ The Romantic Heresy/ Naturalism and Representation/ Popular Art/ Original Art / Original Romantic Art/ Original Descriptive Art/ Original Architectural Art/ Romantic Popular Art/ Derivative Popular Art/ Descriptive Popular Art/ Genius and the Critic/ Recapitulation/Degenerate Nineteenth Century art/ Degeneration of ideas of Art/ Degeneration of Technique/ Derivative degeneration/ The Camera’s Influence/ The Camera’s vision/ Human Perception/ Technique of the pre-Raphaelites : The Daguerreotype and Ruskin/ The Daguerreotype and Ingres/ Technique of Corot and the Impressionists/ Reconstruction of France and England/ Technique of the Movement/ Architectural Form Post-Impressionism and Cubism/ Architectural Colour/ Architectural Distortion/ Architectural Perspective/ Popular Cubism/ Criterions of Value/ The Artist as Spectator/ The Original Architectural artist-spectator/ The Honest Competent Artist Spectator/ The Dishonest Architect Spectator/ The Honest incompetent Artist-spectator (the Case of Haydon)/ Value of Original Architectural Art/ Value of Original Romantic Art/ Value of Original Descriptive art/ The Philistine and Original Art/ Value of Romantic Popular Art/ Value of Derivative Popular Art/ Value of Technique/ Value of Genius/ The Question of Survival.

Reginald Howard Wilenski (7 March 1887 – 19 April 1975) was an English painter, art historian and critic known for his books The Modern Movement in Art (1927), The Meaning of Modern Sculpture (1932), and his psychological study of John Ruskin (1933). He abandoned his studies at Oxford to study painting in Munich and Paris but was unsuccessful in his career as an artist and subsequently worked in the War Office intelligence department during the First World War before reviewing art for the Evening Standard. Later, he lectured in art, first at the University of Bristol and then at the University of Manchester. He was a press censor and worked for the BBC European service during the Second World War. He was made a chevalier of the Légion d’honneur in 1967.