Herbert Edward Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read, 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.
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A concise history of modern painting
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1959
Education for peace
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1949
To hell with culture, and other essays on art and society
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1941
The Philosophy of Anarchism
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1940
Henry Moore
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1934
Education Through Art
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1934
Art Now
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1933
The meaning of art
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1931
The sense of glory
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1929
The Philosophy of Modern Art
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