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The Happy Hypocrite: Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading, issue 3

The Happy Hypocrite: Volatile Dispersal: Speed and Reading, issue 3
Library Shelf Location ABC-FUSC
Publication Date 2009
Description
NOTE: THIS ARTIST'S BOOK IS HELD IN BALTIC ARCHIVE NOT THE LIBRARY. Please email archive@balticmill.com or see staff to view this book.
 
Presenting: A reprint in entirety of A Great Book Primer: Essays on Liberal Education, the Uses of Reading and the Rules of Reading, published by the Great Books Foundation, Chicago (1955).

The primer is divided into three parts: Liberal Education with essays establishing the centrality of enlightenment thinking, and the moral virtue of education and tradition. In part two, The Uses of Discussion, a range of essays affirms the use of these moral virtues and traditions through the art of educated conversation. Finally in part three, an essay elaborating a set of rules for reading well, and the art of discussion, and of course their intimate and sympathetic relationship to the art of thinking well – ‘boldly, critically and freely’. With contributions ranging from Francis Bacon and Samuel Johnson to T.S. Eliot and Michel de Montaigne, and seemingly useless when divorced from the complete series of Great Books, this primer exists as both an archaic set of rules, and open-ended set of possibilities.

In this spirit the editing process happened outside the journal in the form of a parley-based art writing festival at the Whitechapel Gallery, London. Living Clay, a foreword to this took place on 22 August 2009, followed by an art writing festival on 21 November 2009, with performances and readings, drawn from new commissions and open submission. Volatile Dispersal: Festival of Art Writing Primer, was launched at the November event.

 

ISBN 9781906012113
Quantity 1
Pages 96 pages; 167 x 230 mm; Edition of 2,000 copies
Editor Maria Fusco
Format Softcover
Publisher Book Works, London
Related Artist Maria Fusco
Categories Artists' Books, BALTIC Artists' Book Collection (by appointment)
Language English
Publication The Happy Hypocrite

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