Notes on Publication
Notes On Publication
Lecture 1: The Geography of Art
TRANSMISSION of first of 7 installments: 16 October 1955 - Home Service
"But these lectures are not going to deal with the development of style from period to
period, that is the history of art, but with a different type of generalisation, a type you
might call the geography of art. Instead of asking what all works of art (and, of
course, architecture) have in common because they belong to one period, in whatever country within one civilisation, I am going to ask here what all works of art (and, of course, architecture) of one people have in common, at whatever time they may have
been made. That means that my subject is really national character as it is expressed
in terms of art."