Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read DSO, MC ( born December 4, 1893 the estate Muscoats near Stone Grave (Yorkshire ), † June 12, 1968 in Stone Grave ) was a British poet and a writer and philosopher in the field of art. He has worked at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA ) in London.
Life
Herbert Read was born in the county of Yorkshire, the son of a peasant family. He studied at the University of Leeds Art and Literature. In World War I he was front-line officer in Belgium and France. After his return he quickly found access to the London literary scene, including to TS Eliot, Ezra Pound.
Read was then working as a ministry official at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. In the 1930s he established himself as a writer and art historian and led the life of both a scholar and a libertarian intellectuals. Artistically, he made a name for himself as a leading expert on Surrealism and organized in 1936 with Roland Penrose, David Gascoyne and others, the first major - and later legendary - British Surrealism exhibition ' International Surrealist Exhibition ' in the New Burlington Galleries from 11 June to 4th of July of the year in London. Herbert Read was editor of the art journal Burlington Magazine (1933-1939) and the first edition of The Thames and Hudson Dictionary of Arts and Artists ( 1966).
Read was president of the British Society for Arts Education, the Institute of Contemporary Art and the Philosophical Society of Yorkshire;
Position
Politically Read stepped out with his commitment to anarchism. Max Stirner's The Ego and Its Own Scripture was for him " a book that I have never lost sight of. " The idea of Mutual Help than a fundamental social category of evolution became his maxim political thought and action based on the teachings of Kropotkin. After he had in 1953 accepted the award of the knighthood, however distanced many of his anarchist companions Read. He retired, however, due to a cancer, more and more of the public back.
Herbert Read was involved, including through participation in street demonstrations, for the campaign against nuclear armament.
Publications
- Wordsworth. Cape, London, 1932.
- Education through art. Earthscan, Munich 1968.
- A Coat of Many Colours. Occasional Essays. Routledge, London, 1945.