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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: Jennifer Ramkalawon, British Museum
Title: Read and the ICA

As one of the founder members of the Institute of Contemporary Arts in 1947, Read provided a valuable platform for modernism in Britain after the war. A unique forum for the discussion and display of not only art, but architecture, music, poetry and film, the ICA was the culmination of several abortive plans by Read to set up a centre of modernism in Britain in the thirties.

For Read the ICA was intended to fulfil his personal remit to become 'a laboratory for the arts', a position that it still strives to attain to the present day and a fitting legacy for Read.

However, Read's attitude to experimentation is open to question and this paper will examine how true Read was to the original idea of an institute of contemporary arts and how this came into conflict with a younger generation of artists and the need to compromise in the face of increasing financial pressures.














































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