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* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.529212 Meaning of Art]'', 1931; Penguin, 1949.
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* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14697 Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design]'', London: Faber and Faber, 1934; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935, [[Media:Read_Herbert_Art_and_Industry.pdf|PDF]].
 
* ''[http://monoskop.org/log/?p=14697 Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design]'', London: Faber and Faber, 1934; New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1935, [[Media:Read_Herbert_Art_and_Industry.pdf|PDF]].
  
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208801/ A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays]'', 1947, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b067c69ff37c488a7f0871 ARG].
 
* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.208801/ A Coat of Many Colours: Occasional Essays]'', 1947, [https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b067c69ff37c488a7f0871 ARG].
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* ''[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.463042 The Art of Sculpture]'', Faber and Faber, 1949.
  
 
* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b9a27b9ff37c5921b98910 The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism]'', 1957, [https://archive.org/details/herbertread0000unse OL].
 
* ''[https://aaaaarg.fail/thing/57b9a27b9ff37c5921b98910 The Tenth Muse: Essays in Criticism]'', 1957, [https://archive.org/details/herbertread0000unse OL].

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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
  • editor, Surrealism, intro. Herbert Read, New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936; repr., St. Clair Shores, MI: Scholarly Press, 1977, 251+[48] pp.
  • Art and Alienation, New York: Horizon, 1967, 176 pp.
    • Umjetnost i otuđenje, Zagreb: Mladost, 1971. Review: Rus (ZU). (Serbo-Croatian)
Literature
  • David Goodway (ed.), Herbert Read Reassessed, Liverpool University Press, 1998. [1]
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