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

Herbert Read is best known as a cultural critic and as the first to make a distinction between organic and abstract art, rather than as a philosophical anarchist. Despite his "elevation" to knighthood, Read is best understood as an anarchist first and a cultural critic second. His approach to cultural criticism was fundamentally informed by his anarchist principles. In this paper I outline the origins of Read's anarchism, particularly his experience in the Great War, review his writings on anarchism, and summarize other anarchists' opinions of Read's impact on the anarchist esthetic. In addition to Read's many published work, this paper will draw on many unpublished manuscripts and letters contained in the University of Victoria's collection of Read's papers.














































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