In the 1950s, the American artist and poet I. Rice Pereira (1902-71) published several books expounding her philosophy, many at her own expense. On Substance in Relation to Intellective Cognition presents a history of concepts of “substance” in art, from the periods of the “primitives” through Egyptian, Greek, Alexandrian, Roman, Mithraism, Christianity, Mediaeval, Renaissance, and 20th Century, as well as a theory of substance as a physical concept in various philosophies. It’s likely that this work remains unpublished, as it doesn’t seem to match the contents of any of the works that Pereira published during these years.
With a poetic note to “Dear, Dear Lee” about the text: “Please do not become discouraged by the first 8 or 10 pages. They may be difficult. They are merely chunks of generalizations; set to give a fundamental feeling of the concept.”
