Who is Herbert Read
Sir Herbert Edward Read, (; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. As well as being a prominent English anarchist, he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of existentialism. He was co-editor with Michael Fordham of the British edition in English of The Collected Works of C. G. Jung.Early life
The eldest of four children of tenant farmer Herbert Edward Read (1868-1903), and his wife Eliza Strickland, Read was born at Muscoates Grange, near Nunnington, about four miles south of Kirkbymoorside in the North Riding of Yorkshi...
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- The characteristic political attitude of today is not one of positive belief, but of despair.
- To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
- Progress is measured by richness and intensity of experience - by a wider and deeper apprehension of the significance and scope of human existence.
- To realize that new world we must prefer the values of freedom and equality above all other values - above personal wealth, technical power and nationalism.
- The slave may be happy, but happiness is not enough.
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