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  Herbert Read page; anarchist, art critic, novelist (1893-1968): from the Daily Bleed's Anarchist Encyclopedia: A ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Read was a poet, art critic & champion of modern art in Britain, & produced approximately 1,150 titles on a broad range of topics.
Herbert Read was a poet, literary critic, educationalist, philosopher, art critic, a historian of modern art & design & its foremost propagandist in Britain.
Read issued a statement justifying his acceptance of a knighthood for services to literature, an act for which, it now seems, his wife was largely responsible but which aroused indignation & anger at the time among many in the anarchist movement.
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 Herbert Read - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO (1893–1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art.
Read was knighted by Prime Minister Winston Churchill in 1953 for "services to literature".
Read was a friend and colleague of Frank McEwen, and it was due in part to his suggestion that the younger man applied for the directorship of the National Gallery of Zimbabwe.
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 Herbert Read
Herbert Read was born in Kirbymoorside, North Riding of Yorkshire.
Read 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, Cambridge, Massachusetts (1953-54).
Read was one of the earliest to practice psychoanalytical criticism.
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 Amazon.ca: Selected Poetry: Books: Herbert Read   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Read (1893968), poet, critic, and novelist, is probably best known to American readers as the author of various popularizing books on modern art.
Read began as an imagiste, writing in the sarcastic, precious manner of early Pound.
But however often Read changed styles, the content of his poems remained constant: they are largely taken up with mild political anarchism, philosophical speculation and nostalgia for England's vanishing rural ways.
www.amazon.ca /Selected-Poetry-Herbert-Read/dp/185619132X   (298 words)

  
 Herbert Read and Alex Comfort - Essay collections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Read declared anarchism in 1937 as a result of his observations of the Spanish Revolution and Civil War- quite an effort when you consider that many British intellectuals had rallied to the Soviet lie-machine (an experience that was to be repeated with a passing adulation among some for the 'achievements' of Maoist China).
Read saw the future society as anarchist communist, but along with many others of the day, thought that this would be achieved through a syndicalist strategy.
However by 1947, Read's revolutionism was beginning to wane and he turned increasingly to the quietist, non-violent ideas that were beginning to emerge within the movement, that would sap it (and continue to sap it) for many a year.
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 Herbert Read Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The personal library of Sir Herbert Read(1893-1968) is held in the Special Collections section of the Brotherton Library.
Read's own works are well-represented and his collection of art exhibition catalogues is extensive.
It is also possible, using the Brotherton Library catalogue, to run a classmark search on the contents of the Herbert Read Library.
www.leeds.ac.uk /fine_art/info/resources/read_lib.html   (197 words)

  
 LiteratureClassics.com -- Essay -- A Comparison of the Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Herbert Read and the Value inherent ...
Herbert Read was not involved in the war, and simply wrote mostly the aforementioned drivel.
Herbert Read's poems would not shock the reader in the least, his poems would be more effective as bedtime stories for children, as the poor children would end up comatosed with boredom.
Herbert Read on the other hand was most likely taking some form of drug while he wrote his poems, as they make absolutely no coherent sense whatsoever.
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 The Harvard Crimson :: News :: Herbert Read Says Form Starts At Crossroads of Consciousness
When this occurs, as in the case of a tool becoming a ceremonial object (for example, the ax becoming a mace), form is divorced from function, and thus freed to develop on the laws and principles called esthetics.
Sir Herbert maintained "There is an independent will to form when the object has attained maximum efficiency and is stabilized." The forms then established by the artist may have universal significance.
Sir Herbert emphasized, "Art is a will to form," and "not an instinctive reaction." From discloses meaning; it is spiritual content translated into an independent mode of configurations.
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 Amazon.com: Reviews for Green Child: Books: Herbert Read   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
I was drawn to read The Green Child because I had heard it was an intriguing fantasy piece.
I have read that the story is allegorical, but not being a political historian or philosopher, that angle was lost on me. Thank goodness Read was successful writing on multiple levels.
Sir Herbert Read's writings are used as textbooks in Art Appreciation classes and he is considered to be one of the foremost Art Critics of the twentieth century.
www.amazon.com /Green-Child-Herbert-Read/dp/customer-reviews/0811201724   (970 words)

  
 Herbert Edward Read Biography | Dictionary of Literary Biography
Herbert Read was one of the most distinguished men of letters in his generation, and it is not easy to disengage the poet from the literary critic, the critic of social ideas, the tireless expositor of modern art, or the author of several works of autobiography and fiction.
But Read himself always thought of his verse as the center of his life's work.
Read was born on a farm near Kirbymoorside, Yorkshire, in 1893, the son of Herbert and Eliza (Strickland) Read.
www.bookrags.com /biography/herbert-edward-read-dlb   (212 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Sir Herbert Read (English Literature, 20th Century To The Present, Biography) - Encyclopedia
Read was an important critic of both art and literature, and he influenced the treatment of these subjects in British education.
As a literary critic, Read reasserted the importance of the 19th-century English Romantic authors, most notably in The True Voice of Feeling: Studies in English Romantic Poetry (1953).
Read also wrote many essays, some of which are collected in The Cult of Sincerity (1969).
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 The Herbert Read Conference, Tate Britain, June 2004
During the Twentieth Century Herbert Read was one of Britain's most remarkable cultural theorists.
This was reflected in his early admiration for Expressionist and Surrealist art, his advocacy of Idealist and Existentialist philosophy, and most of all in his pioneering use of psychoanalysis as a critical tool.
We are also grateful for the advice offered by the Herbert Read Trust which has greatly assisted in the organisation of this event.
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 Herbert Read Summary
The career of Herbert Read spanned vast and varied times and types of literature--Edwardian to postmodern--and art--art nouveau to pop art.
Herbert Read was one of the most distinguished men of letters in his generation, and it is not easy to disengage the poet from the literary critic, the critic of social ideas, the tireless expositor of modern art, or the author of several works of autobi...
Sir Herbert Edward Read, MC, DSO(1893 – 1968) was an English poet and critic of literature and art.
www.bookrags.com /Herbert_Read   (170 words)

  
 First World War.com - Prose & Poetry - Sir Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968), the poet and critic, was born in Yorkshire in 1893.
Read wrote two volumes of poetry based upon his war experiences: Songs of Chaos (1915) and Naked Warriors, published in 1919, along with two volumes of autobiography: In Retreat (1925) and Ambush (1930).
French tanks were used for the first time in battle on 17 April 1917, when the 'Char Schneider' (as they were known) was used during the Second Battle of the Aisne.
www.firstworldwar.com /poetsandprose/read.htm   (381 words)

  
 TIME.com: Man of Four Lives -- Jun. 21, 1963 -- Page 1
The typical Englishman who is all these things is Sir Herbert Read, 69, a highly singular man who needs not one but four autobiographies to do justice to his talent for plural living.
There is Herbert the dreaming farmboy on the moors of Yorkshire, Captain Read, M.C., D.S.O., an infantry captain in the Green Howards, and Herbert Read, the philosopher, poet and esthetician.
In a larger sense, Read speaks as one of the millions of "alienated souls" of the modern world for whom heaven and hell do not exist, and who must look to their own origins for the polarities of the spirit.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,874934,00.html   (542 words)

  
 Herbert Read, A British Vision of World Art
Sir Herbert Read (1893—1968) was one of the greatest British champions of art and a prolific art critic and writer.
His recognition of the importance of such contemporary figures as Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Paul Nash and Ben Nicholson helped to place the achievement of British artists in a world context, and Read was also the first to champion an astonishingly wide range of European art of the twentieth century.
This new publication, which accompanies a major centenary exhibition at Leeds City Art Gallery, is the first to look at the pioneering work of Sir Herbert Read through the works of art with which he was particularly associated.
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 Fundraising and the Sir Herbert Read Consortium   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Sir Herbert Read Consortium (SHR) is a non-profit corporation established by the AS#1 community in 1983 to financially support alternative education at the school.
For more information about the Sir Herbert Read Consortium, please contact SHR President, Toni Preston at 206-440-1935 or mammatoni@yahoo.com.
The Sir Herbert Read Foundation is a 501c3 corporation.
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 Charlotte and Herbert Read - Winter 1999
Puffing steel mills are as accepted by the millions of beach-goers as is the heat of summer.
Milling around him are young women with tanned bodies wrapped in bikinis and kids scuffling along in Tevas behind parents toting huge rubber rafts, coolers, and towels.
Their current house, tucked in the woods of the National Lakeshore, is on leaseback until 2010, when it becomes property of the federal government.
chicagowildernessmag.org /issues/winter1999/charlotteherbert.html   (925 words)

  
 Herbert Read: The Paradox of Anarchism
In this interesting essay Herbert Read presents the concept of the functional contract in opposition to the social contract.
The functional contract characterizes the anarchic society where individuals arrange their affairs and follow rules on the basis of functional aims voluntarily aimed at by the participants.
Anarchism is the final and most urgent protest against this fate: a recall to those principles which alone can guarantee the harmony of man's being and the creative evolution of his genius.
www.panarchy.org /read/anarchism.html   (2725 words)

  
 A Comparison of the Poetry of Wilfred Owen and Herbert Read and the Value inherent therein -- Essay at ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Herbert Read was a pacifist, and he revealed that in his poetry, which usually tended to, while giving some facts, go on and on about the mystical things like the "Meditation of a Dying German Officer" and a "dialogue between the Body and the Soul of the Murdered Girl".
This poem, which bears more likeness to a novel, is all about a German officer who is, obviously, dying.
In the first Stanza the girl's body says "I speak not from my pallid lips, but from these wounds" to which the girl's soul replies "Red lips that cannot tell a credible tale".
www.literatureclassics.com /essays/1056   (2744 words)

  
 Digital Trends - Herbert v0.3.3
When i was loving Herbert, this "bug" came out.
PS: I'm currently working on making Herbert read in more WMA tracks correctly...
Herbert could have a "Minimize to System Tray" function so it would be active to transfer files this way...
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 Sir Herbert Read — Infoplease.com
As a literary critic, Read reasserted the importance of the 19th-century English Romantic authors, most notably in
Read also wrote many essays, some of which are collected in
Sir Wally Herbert had mapped 73,000 square kilometres of previously unexplored land before he was 30.
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 Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), Critic and writer on art
Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968), Critic and writer on art
Read worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum in the 1920s as a curator of porcelain, medieval ivories and stained glass.
He is, however, universally associated with modern European art and his promotion of British artists of international stature such as Henry Moore, Ben Nicholson and Barbara Hepworth in the 1930s.
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 Herbert Read
Herbert Read was born in Kirby Moorside, Yorkshire in 1893.
Educated in Halifax and Leeds University he served during the First World War as a captain in the Yorkshire Regiment and was awarded the Military Cross for bravery.
After the war Read was assistant keeper of the
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /FWWread.htm   (161 words)

  
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 Read Collected Works
Read, Sir Herbert Edward Ambush, (Faber and Faber, 1930).
--- The University of Victoria Special Collections Library has an extensive repository of Read's papers.
The following works are from the University of Victoria collection and appear in Anarchy Archives with the permission of Benedict Read, Executor and Trustee, Herbert Read Estate and Trust:
dwardmac.pitzer.edu /anarchist_archives/bright/read/readworks.html   (75 words)

  
 Textbooks by Herbert Read - Direct Textbook   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
V Symbols of Transformation by C. G., Edited By: Sir Herbert Read Jung
The origins of form in art by Herbert Edward Read
Art of Sculpture (The A. Mellon lectures in the fine arts) by Herbert Read
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