Download or read book Cultivating the Human Faculties written by Susan Bennett and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2008 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains a series of essays on different aspects of Irish painter James Barry's monumental cycle of paintings 'The Progress of Human Knowledge', in the Great Room of the Royal Society of Arts. Barry's work is debated in the context of wider issues such as nationalism and improvement and publicity and patronage.