Sir Herbert Edward Read, (4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) 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. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham and Gerhard Adler of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung. (From Wikipedia) More about Herbert Read:
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| | Books by Herbert Read: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968, contrib.: Britain at War (1941), by Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), ed. by Monroe Wheeler, also contrib. by T. S. Eliot, E. J. Carter, and Carlos Dyer (PDF with commentary at moma.org)
Additional books by Herbert Read in the extended shelves: Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Catalogue of English porcelain, earthenware, enamels and glass (Pub. under the authority of the Board of Education, 1924), also by Victoria and Albert Museum. Schreiber Collection, W. B. Honey, and Bernard Rackham (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Culture and education in world order. (Pub. for the Committee on Art Education by the Museum of Modern Art, 1948) (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Dutch tiles, the Van den Bergh gift; a guide to the collection given to the museum by Henry Van den Bergh, esquire, through the National art-collections fund. (Pub. under the authority of the Board of Education, 1923), also by Victoria and Albert Museum. Dept. of Ceramics and Bernard Rackham (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: English pottery : its development from early times to the end of the eighteenth century (E.Benn, 1924), also by Bernard Rackham and J. W. L. Glaisher (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Notes on language and style (University of Washington book store, 1930), also by T. E. Hulme (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Phases of English poetry. (Harcourt, Brace and company, 1929) (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Reason and romanticism : essays in literary criticism. (Faber and Gwyer, 1926) (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: A sentimental journey (Scholartis Press, 1929), also by Laurence Sterne, Bernhard A. Uhlendorf, T. and A. Constable, and Scholartis Press (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Speculations; essays on humanism and the philosophy of art (K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd.;, 1924), also by T. E. Hulme (page images at HathiTrust) Read, Herbert, 1893-1968: Thirty-five poems (Faber and Faber, 1941) (page images at HathiTrust)
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