Art and Anarchy Author:Edgar Wind Will works of the imagination ever regain the power they once had to challenge and mould society and the individual? This was the question posed by Edgar Wind's influential Reith Lectures delivered in 1960 and later expanded into his book Art and Anarchy. The book examined the various forces that have fashioned the modern view of art, from mecha... more »nisation and fear of intellect to connoisseurship and-perhaps the fundamental weakness of our age-the dispassionate acceptance of art. In the course of his discussion Edgar Wind surveyed an amazingly wide range of topics in the history of painting, literature, music and the plastic arts from the Renaissance to modern times.« less