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University of Nottingham
Institute for Research
in Visual Culture


Tate Britain Conferences



The Herbert Read Library
at the University of Leeds



University of Victoria Library
Herbert Read Collection



The Herbert Read
Discussion Group



Basic Biography of Read



Herbert Read Books
Available

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



Nannette Aldred, University of Sussex
"A sufficient flow of vital ideas": Herbert Read from Leeds Arts Club to the ICA , London


Allan Antliff, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
Herbert Read and the Abstract Imperative in Anarchist Art


Lee Beard, Courtauld Institute of Art, London
‘Art without content’: Herbert Read, pottery and the non-figurative.


Andrew Causey, University of Manchester
Herbert Read and the boundaries of art in the early 1950s.


Riann Coulter, Courtauld Institute, London,
Herbert Read and Irish Art


Margaret Garlake, Editor, The Sculpture Journal
Revisiting the 'Geometry of fear'.


David Getsy, Dartmouth College, USA
Tactility or Opticality: Herbert Read and Clement Greenberg on the Art of Sculpture


Jason Harding, Feng Chia University, Taiwan
T. S. Eliot’s Anarchist Aide-de-Camp


David Hulks, independent scholar
Despair, or Defiance: the double inflection in Herbert Read?s geometry of fear


Jennifer Ramkalawon, British Museum
Read and the ICA


Michael T Saler, University of California, Davis, USA
Special note


Leena Kore-Schroder, University of Nottingham
'Rumbling in the depths': The Textual and Cultural Politics of The Green Child


Tom Steele, University of Glasgow
Negotiated Translations: Herbert Read, Arnold Hauser and the Social History of Art


Dana Ward, Pitzer College, USA
Read on Anarchism; Anarchists on Read


Michael Whitworth, University of Bangor
Herbert Read and the New Metaphysical Poetry


Kieron Winn, independent scholar
Read and T.S. Eliot


Jerry Zaslove, Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada
An Exiled and Mutant Anarchist of Many Colours – What is ‘Left’ of Herbert Read’s Modernism Within the Ruins of the Avant-Garde?


DISCLAIMER: Please note that both the content of the papers and the list of speakers is subject to change at very short notice. Although all the named speakers have stated that it is their intention to speak on these topics at the conference, we cannot guarantee that any of the named speakers on this list will speak at the conference, or that the conference papers delivered will correspond to the outlines given here.















































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