From poverty and a Yorkshire orphanage, Herbert Read went on to
become the most significant cultural critic to come out of England
in the twentieth century.
Between 1940 and 1960 he was the most well-respected writer on
modernist art in the English language, effectively defining the
movement during that period. He was a major art theorist and writer
on literature, and a key figure in anarchist politics.
He was a leading figure in many Eureopan art movements,
including Constructivism and Surrealism, and was one of the first
English writers to embrace the Existentialist theories of Jean-Paul
Sartre. Remarkably Read was once accused by the leading English
modernist, Percy Wyndham Lewis, of being too radical in his
artistic tastes.
Read was also a notable poet of the First World War, and in
later years helped to found numerous art organisations, including
the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA) in London. And yet, after
his death in 1968, he became an almost forgotten figure in art and
cultural studies, eclipsed by later figures such as Clement
Greenberg and Raymond Williams.
In this book sixteen of the world's leading writers on modernist
cultural history look at Read's work again, focusing on his
anarchist political beliefs, his work on art and literature, and
his own creative writings. They place him in the context of
twentieth century cultural life, and offer startling explanations
for his neglect by later writers on modernism.
The book is very well illustrated in full colour, with images of
works by many of the artists Read championed.
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