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Author photo. Photo from 1945 (Poetry since 1939, British Council)

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Herbert Read (1893–1968)

Author of A Concise History of Modern Painting

Includes the names: Hebert Read, Herbert Read, Herbert E. Read, sir herbert read, Sir Herbert Read, Herbert Edward Read, Herbert Read, advisor, Sir Herbert Edward Read, Sir Herbert Edward Read

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Works by Herbert Read
A Concise History of Modern Painting 635 copies, 2 reviews
The Meaning of Art 327 copies, 3 reviews
The Green Child 317 copies, 6 reviews
Modern Sculpture: A Concise History 310 copies, 3 reviews
The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Art and Artists 207 copies
The Philosophy of Modern Art 130 copies
To Hell with Culture and Other Essays on Art and Society 125 copies, 1 review
Education Through Art 93 copies, 1 review
English Prose Style 84 copies
Henry Moore; a study of his life and work 67 copies
Art and Society 59 copies, 1 review
Art and Industry: The Principles of Industrial Design 56 copies, 1 review
Icon and Idea: The Function of Art in the Development of Human… 54 copies
Contemporary British Art 53 copies
Anarchy and order;: Essays in politics 51 copies
This Way Delight: A Book of Poetry for the Young 44 copies
The London Book of English Verse (Editor) 41 copies
Art Now 41 copies, 1 review
The Art of Sculpture 39 copies
Surrealism 35 copies
The Grass Roots of Art: Lectures on the Social Aspects of Art in an… 33 copies
The Art of Jean Arp 33 copies, 1 review
Henri Matisse: Retrospective 1966 29 copies
Origins of Western Art (Editor) 28 copies, 1 review
Collected Poems 25 copies
Fifty Amazing Stories of the Great War 24 copies, 1 review
Art and Alienation 24 copies
The Great Artists: Vermeer 23 copies, 1 review
The Contrary Experience 23 copies
Paul Nash 22 copies
The redemption of the robot; my encounter with education through art 20 copies
Wordsworth 19 copies
The Forms of Things Unknown 17 copies
Vermeer 16 copies, 2 reviews
A Letter to a Young Painter 15 copies
The Innocent Eye 15 copies, 1 review
A coat of many colours : occasional essays 14 copies
The London Book of English Prose (Editor) 14 copies
Poetry and anarchism 13 copies
A one-man manifesto and other writings for Freedom Press 13 copies
Encyclopaedia of the arts 13 copies
Form in modern poetry 12 copies
The Philosophy of Anarchism 11 copies
Ben Nicholson: Paintings (Little library of art;no.45) 11 copies
The Knapsack 11 copies
Thirty-Five Poems 10 copies
Selected writings; poetry and criticism 10 copies
The tenth muse : essays in criticism 10 copies
Education for peace 9 copies
True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry 8 copies, 1 review
A World Within A War 8 copies
On beauty 7 copies
Surrealism 7 copies
The Nature of Literature 7 copies
The origins of form in art 7 copies
Annals of innocence and experience 7 copies
Selected Poetry 7 copies
The Education of Free Men 6 copies, 1 review
THE STYLES OF EUROPEAN ART. 6 copies
In Retreat 5 copies
The politics of the unpolitical 5 copies
Henry Moore: Volume 2, Sculpture and Drawings Since 1948 (Introduction) 5 copies
Cult of Sincerity 5 copies
Byron 5 copies
In defence of Shelley & other essays 4 copies
Henry Moore; Sculpture and Drawings 4 copies
Discovering Art. The Seventeenth Century 4 copies
Essays in Literary Criticism 4 copies
Existentialism Marxism and Anarchism Chains of Freedom 4 copies
Australia: Aboriginal Paintings - Arnhem Land. 4 copies
The End of a war 4 copies
Henry Moore, sculptor 4 copies
Poems, 1914-1934 4 copies
Phases of English Poetry 4 copies
The English Vision 3 copies
Gauguin (1848-1903) 3 copies
Klee, First Volume (The Faber Gallery) 3 copies
Ben Nicholson: Paintings, Reliefs, Drawings Volume I 3 copies
The Book of Art Volume III - Impressionists and post-impressionists 3 copies, 1 review
Stravinsky and the dance : a survey of ballet productions 1910-1962 in… 2 copies
Essays and Studies By Members of The English Association Vol. XXI 2 copies
Henry Moore: Exposition organisée par le British Council et le Musée… 2 copies
The Peggy Guggenheim Collection 2 copies
Group One Four, John Berry, Roy Grayson, Mauro Kunst, Brian Yale 2 copies
Moon's Farm and Poems Mostly Elegiac 2 copies
The sense of glory; essays in criticism 2 copies
The practice of design 2 copies
Kandinsky (1866-1944) 2 copies
Catalogue of the exhibition of sculpture and drawings by Henry Moore at… 1 copy
Gabo: constructions, sculpture, paintings, drawings, engravings 1 copy
Discovering Art - The Illustrated Story of Art Through the Ages 16th… 1 copy
Aristotle's mother; an imaginary conversation 1 copy
The anthology of English prose, 1 copy
On style 1 copy
Styles of Modern Art, The 1 copy
THE ANATOMY OF ART 1 copy
Moderne malerkunst 1 copy
A Concise History of Modern Painting, 3rd edition 1 copy
Henry Moore A Study of his Life and Work 1 copy
Geschichte der modernen Plastik. 1 copy
Naum Gabo: Constructions, Paintings, Drawings 1 copy
Pragmatic anarchism 1 copy
There is no other way 1 copy
Coleridge as Critic 1 copy
English stained glass 1 copy
The Studio Modern Art and French Decadence 1 copy
Essential communism 1 copy
Discovering Art No. 23 1 copy
Naked Warriors. [Poems.] 1 copy
Imagen e idea : la función del arte en el desarrollo de la conciencia… 1 copy
Discovering Art: The Illustrated Story of Art Through the Ages: v. 4, n.… 1 copy
The Thames and Hudson encyclopaedia of the arts 1 copy
La Redención del Robot (Spanish Edition) 1 copy
A Search for Man's Sanity: The Selected Letters of Trigant Burrow 1 copy
News from Thrush Green 1 copy
Arte y sociedad 1 copy
Discovering art : volume 1 1 copy
Discovering art : volume 2 1 copy
Sculpture: Open-Air Exhibition of Contemporary British and American Works 1 copy
Child art; the beginnings of self-affirmation 1 copy
Siegward Sprotte Aquarelle auf Sylt 1 copy
تربية الذوق الفني 1 copy
Pursuits & verdicts 1 copy
Collected essays in literary criticism 1 copy
The Betrayal of the Intellectuals 1 copy
The Rebel 1 copy
Unit One, the modern movement in English Architecture, painting and… 1 copy, 1 review
Speculations: Essays on Humanism and the Philosophy of Art 1 copy
Ambush 1 copy
Art and the Evolution of Man 1 copy
Reason and Romanticism Essays in Literary Criticism 1 copy
Lynn Chadwick (Artists of our Time, Volume IV) 1 copy
Henry Moore. Vol.1, Sculpture and drawings, 1921-1948 1 copy
DISCOVERING ART THE ILLUSTRATED STORY OF ART THROUGH THE AGES (VOL1-4) 1 copy
Mutations of the Phoenix 1 copy
Psychopathology of reaction in the arts 1 copy
Jan Le Witt 1 copy
Eric Gill. An essay 1 copy
Umjetnost danas 1 copy
O prirodi poezije i prirodi kritike 1 copy
Ιστορία της μοντέρνας γλυπτικής 1 copy
The collected works v.17 / The development of personality 1 copy
Aspects of Form 1 copy
Australia (Aboriginal Paintings-Arnhem Land) 1 copy
Istorija moderne skulpture 1 copy
The future of industrial design. Design and Industries Association booklet… 1 copy
Barbara Hepworth: Carvings and Drawings 1 copy
Essays and studies 1 copy
Truth is More Sacred 1 copy
Rome - New York Art Foundation Inc.: The Quest and the Quarry 1 copy
The True Voice of Feeling Studies in English Romantic Poetry 1 copy
Vasily Kandinsky 1866-1944 1 copy
WRITERS ON THEMSELVES. 1 copy
William Godwin 1 copy
The Paradox of Anarchism 1 copy
The English vision, an anthology 1 copy
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Also by Herbert Read
The Rebel: An Essay on Man in Revolt (Foreword, some editions) 3,951 copies, 24 reviews
A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (Editor, some editions) 1,661 copies, 23 reviews
The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious (Editor, some editions) 1,244 copies, 10 reviews
A Dictionary of Symbols (Foreword, some editions) 1,111 copies, 11 reviews
Psychological Types (Editor, some editions) 802 copies, 3 reviews
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (Contributor, some editions) 276 copies, 2 reviews
The Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse (Contributor, some editions) 258 copies, 3 reviews
Paul Klee on Modern Art (Faber Paper Covered Editions) (Introduction, some editions) 195 copies, 4 reviews
Classic Art: An Introduction to the Italian Renaissance (Introduction, some editions) 177 copies, 1 review
Psychiatric Studies (Editor, some editions) 168 copies
The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease (Editor, some editions) 162 copies
The Anarchist Reader (Author, some editions) 121 copies
Soul: An Archaeology--Readings from Socrates to Ray Charles (Contributor) 94 copies
The Imagist Poem (Contributor, some editions) 93 copies
Film: A Montage of Theories (Contributor) 78 copies
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Canonical name
Legal name
Read, Herbert Edward
Other names
Date of birth
1893-12-04
Date of death
1968-06-12
Burial location
Gender
male
Nationality
UK
Country (for map)
Birthplace
Nunnington, Yorkshire, England, UK
Place of death
Stonegrave, Yorkshire, England, UK
Cause of death
Places of residence
Yorkshire, England, UK
Education
University of Leeds
Occupations
poet
literary critic
art historian
philosopher
curator
Relationships
Read, Piers Paul (son)
Eliot, T. S. (friend)
Read, Benedict William (son)
Read, John (son)
Agents
Organizations
Harvard University
Wesleyan University
Burlington Magazine
University of Edinburgh
Victoria and Albert Museum
Awards and honors
Military Cross (1917)
Distinguished Service Order (1918)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (1966)
Knighthood (1953)
Short biography
Disambiguation notice

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