Book
Why Exhibit Works of Art?
A collection of essays critiquing modern attitudes toward art and arguing for a traditional understanding of the work of art as the expression of meaning. By the Anglo-Ceylonese art historian.
Where to find it
- Google Books record — Why Exhibit Works of Art? (Luzac, 1943, 148 pp.)
- Cambridge Core — contemporary review (Listowel) of the book, Philosophy 19/73 (July 1944), p.176
- Open Library record — Why exhibit works of art? (Luzac, 1943)
- Internet Archive — full text of the unaltered Dover (1956) reprint, 'Christian and Oriental Philosophy of Art' (orig. 'Why Exhibit Works of Art?')
- DOI — title essay 'Why Exhibit Works of Art?', J. of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 1, no. 2-3 (1941): 27-41 (OUP/Oxford Academic)