Twenty-five essays by distinguished British art critic and painter reveal his wide-ranging interests. Writings explore such diverse topics as the art of the Bushmen, African sculpture, ancient American art, Giotto and the art of Florence, the paintings of Dürer, El Greco and William Blake, contemporary architecture, and more. Also includes Fry's "Essay in Aesthetics." 13 black-and-white illustrations.
Roger Fry (1866-1934) was an English artist and art critic, who, at the invitation of J. Pierpont Morgan, was director of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from 1905 to 1910. His other books include "Giovanni Bellini" (1899), an edition of Sir Joshua Reynolds's "Discourses "(1935), "Henri Matisse" (1930), "Characteristics of French Art" (1932), and "Reflections on British Painting" (1934).