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

This paper charts the relationship of Read and Hauser during the late 30s and early 40s. In particular it discusses the role of Read in the publication of Hauser's Social History of Art while Read was an editor for Kegan Paul and his finding him a teaching position at the University of Leeds.

Hauser was the foremost Marxist art historian of his generation whose work had a seminal impact on radical art historians in the 1960s and in fact could be said to have almost single handedly created the field of study of the social history of art in Britain. As a European Jewish exile in flight from Nazi persecution Hauser contributed to the profound impact that emigre group made on British intellectual culture in a wide range of disciplines, particularly social sciences. He and Read met at a time when Read was reconsidering his own position in relation to the social history art. Hauser's membership of Lukacs 'Sunday Circle' in Budapest and his familiarity with Lukacs's study of class consciousness, although an unfashionable theme in postmodern times makes him also a signal, if largely unacknowledged, influence in the emergence of British cultural studies.














































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