Herbert Read

Herbert Edward Read (4 December 1893, Muscoates, North Riding of Yorkshire, England - 12 June 1968, Stonegrave, North Riding of Yorkshire, England) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism.

Works

• Meaning of Art, 1931; Penguin, 1949.

• Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design, London: Faber and Faber, 1934; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935, PDF.

• editor, Surrealism, intro. Herbert Read, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936; repr., St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1977, 251+[48] pp.

• The Politics of the Unpolitical, 1943.

• Education Through Art, London: Faber and Faber, 1943, ARG.
  • Výchova uměním, trans. Jan Caha, Prague: Odeon, 1967, 417 pp. (Czech)

• A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays, 1947, ARG.

• The Art of Sculpture, Faber and Faber, 1949.

• The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism, 1957, OL.

• Forms of Things Unknown: Essays Towards an Aesthetic Philosophy, Cleveland: World Publishing, 1963.

• To Hell With Culture and Other Essays on Art and Society, 1963.

• Art and Alienation, New York: Horizon, 1967, 176 pp.
  • Umjetnost i otuđenje, Zagreb: Mladost, 1971. Review: Rus (ZU). (Serbo-Croatian)

• A One-Man Manifesto, and Other Writings for Freedom Press, 1994.

• more

Literature

• David Goodway (ed.), Herbert Read Reassessed, Liverpool University Press, 1998. [1]

Links

• http://arthistorians.info/readh