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Herbert Edward Read
AuthorBooks · Second hand1893-1968
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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Birth
1893
Death
1968
First book
1915
Years writing
53
Herbert Read was a multifaceted figure who excelled as a poet, philosopher, and art critic.
His thought was deeply shaped by his anarchist convictions.
He is the author of a vast body of work comprising over three hundred and sixty published titles.
His influential book Education Through Art transformed the way creative pedagogy is understood.
Born in Muscoates, he dedicated his life to analyzing the history and aesthetics of the 20th century.