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Language: English Englisch

Category: Philosophy > Twentieth & Twenty-first Century (29) Philosophie > Zwanzigstes & Einundzwanzigstes Jahrhundert

Author: Read (7)

Keywords: Inscription Copy (50) Autographs (11) Widmungsexemplar Autographen

– Background –

Sir Herbert Edward Read was a British poet, writer, and philosopher in the field of art. He was born on December 4, 1893, on a farm in Yorkshire, England, and studied art history and literature at the University of Leeds. During World War I, Read was a front-line officer in Belgium and France, and after returning from the war, he quickly gained access to the London literary scene, including T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound. Read worked as a civil servant at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and in the 1930s, he established himself as a writer and art historian, and was a leading expert on Surrealism. He organized the first major English Surrealism exhibition in 1936 and was the editor of the Burlington Magazine (1933–1939). He was also the president of the British Society for Education in Art, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, and the Philosophical Society of Yorkshire. In his later years, Read became more reclusive due to a cancer diagnosis, and he passed away in 1968. Read was politically outspoken in his commitment to anarchism, and he was a proponent of mutual aid as a guiding principle for social and political action.