Skip to main content

Herbert Read

  • Sir Herbert Read
  • Herbert Edward Read
  • Sir Herbert Edward Read
Sort Name
Read, Herbert
Ratings
No reviews
Type
Person
Gender
Male
Date of birth
1893-12-04
Place of birth
United Kingdom
Date of death
1968-06-12
Place of death
United Kingdom

Wikipedia

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.

He was a professor of fine art at Edinburgh University from 1931 to 1933, a lecturer in art at the University of Liverpool (1935-36), Leon Fellow at University of London (1940-42), and Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry at Harvard University (1953-54).

Continue reading at Wikipedia... Wikipedia content provided under the terms of the Creative Commons BY-SA license

Annotation

English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art.

Last modified: 2020-10-13 (revision #33051)

Reviews No reviews

No reviews yet.


Last Modified
2023-08-05