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The Herbert Read Conference 2004

The Herbert Read Conference, Tate Britain, London, 25 and 26 June 2004
Jointly organised by the University of Nottingham Institute for Research in Visual Culture and Tate Britain


Speaker: Riann Coulter, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
Title: Herbert Read and Irish Art

 From his involvement in The Exhibition of Subjective Art of 1943, to his support of Louis Le Brocquy in the early 1960s, Herbert Read played a significant, if largely unrecognised role, in the consolidation of modernism in Ireland.

This paper will consider Read’s contribution to the emerging discourse of contemporary art in Ireland and compare his efforts to identify an authentically English manifestation of modernism, with contemporaneous attempts by Irish artists and critics to reconcile modernist aesthetics with the identity politics of their fledgling state.

The affinities between Read’s regionalist ideas and those of the critic John Hewitt, whose desire to define a regional culture in Ulster was analogous to Read’s endorsement of Yorkshire regionalism, will also be considered, as will the danger of provincialism that both critics recognised in Irish art and sought to counteract by identifying and encouraging local manifestations of international Modernism.














































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