Miscellaneous articles
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Miscellaneous articles
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/2/4/3
Creator(s): Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)
Date(s): 1929-1969
Size and medium: 4 folders
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692523
Collection group(s): English Literature | Special Collections Art | Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains clippings and offprints of published articles, letters, poems and plays by Herbert Read. In most cases the articles have been cut from their original context, but where an entire copy of the journal has been kept it is indicated in the list below.
The 1961 Design Oration, speech delivered at The Royal Society, 27 Nov 1961, in SIA Journal, 4pp.
A Century of English Painting, Oct 1946, 10pp. Journal title not printed.
A Good Artist But a Bad Friend, book review of The Letters of Wyndham Lewis by W.K. Rose, S/R, 4 April 1964, 2pp.
A Nest of Gentle Artists, Apollo magazine, September 1962, 2pp. With manuscript annotations.
The Aesthetics of Architecture, Architectural Association Journal, May 1960, 8pp.
An appoach to modern art, 13pp. n.d.
Anarchism: Past and Future, Freedom, 17 May 1947, 2pp.
Ancient War and Modern Peace, book review of Ancient History by Michael Grant, Freedom, 15 Mar 1952, 1p.
The Ape of Hitler, Freedom, n.d., 1p.
Aristotle's Mother: An Argument in Athens, play first broadcast on 24 Nov, 1946.
Across the Moor, in The Bermondsey Book, 1927, 6pp.
Art and Crisis, Horizon, n.d., 15pp.
Art and politics, Comrade, November 1943, 3pp. 2 copies, 1 in situ, 1 loose.
As Revolution runs down, 1967, clipping without journal title.
Atrophied Muscles and empty art, New Scientist, 14 May 1964, 2pp.
Authors old and new: Walter Pater, World Review, n.d., 4pp.
Byron, Writers and their Work, published by the British Council, offprint, 1966, with manuscript annotations to bibliography.
The Case for Civil Disobedience, Time and Tide, September 1961, 2pp.
Children's drawings: are they really good? Picture Post, 1 April 1944, 4pp.
Correspondence: Mr Read's Book-Marketing Scheme, letter to the Editor of The London Mercury and Bookman, April 1935, 1pp.
Culture and Education in a World order, World Review, n.d., 7pp.
De Tocqueville on Art in America, The Adelphi, Oct-Dec 1946, 5pp.
The Decentralisation of Art, 2pp. n.d. journal name not printed.
Developments in the Arts, Esso Magaxine, Winter 1966, 2pp.
The Disintegration of Form in Modern Art, Studio International, 12pp.
Dublin Unvisited, 6pp, n.d. journal name not printed.
Ducats and Sonnets, book review of 'I Michelangelo, Sculptor: An Autobiography Through Letters', ed. by Irving and Jean Stone, S/R, 8 Sep 1962, 2pp.
Education of the Designer, Design Review, n.d., 1p.
Edvard Munch, offprint
The Empty Landscape, The Countryman, Winter 1965, 9pp.
The Enjoyment of Art, n.d., 4pp. Journal name not printed.
Esthetics: Enemy of Violence?, Saturday Review, 24 Dec 1960, 3pp.
Fanning a glow in old embers, book review of The Genius of John Ruskin: Selections from his writings, ed. by John D. Rosenberg, Book Week, 15 Dec, 1963, 2pp.
Fantasic and surrealistic painting, in Mind Alive: the Marshall Cavendish Encyclopedia, vol 1, no 11, 4pp. Read's name is not printed on the article. Full copy of journal.
Farewell to Formalism, ARTnews, 1952, 4pp. Correspondence and a response relating to this article can be found in BC MS 20c Herbert Read/12 under Hans Sahl.
Freedom, Is it a Crime? pamphlet, published by the Freedm Defence Committee, June 1945, 14pp.
The Freedom of the Artist, n.d., 7pp. Journal name not printed.
The Future of Abstract Art, Folklore, April 1962, 6pp, with some manuscript corrections.
Great writers 8: Coleridge, Time and Tide, 21-27 February 1963, 2pp.
Herbert Read writes..., Poetry Book Society Bulletin, November 1955, 1p. 7 copies.
Herbert Read's broadcast on anarchism, Freedom, 4 January 1947, 1p. 2 copies.
High Noon and Darkest Night: Some Observations on Ortega y Gasset's Philosophy of Art, 18pp. offprint.
Ideal Form and Popular Taste in Industrial Design, Nature, 17 Feb 1962, 3pp.
Is British Art Fighting? Art and Industry, July 1942, 2pp. A response from John Nicholas is attached.
Jankel Adler, n.d., journal name not printed. 2 manuscript spelling amendments.
Josiah Wedgwood, Prince of Potters, International Studio, n.d., 4pp.
Lure of 'Conveyor Belt' Civilisation, The Hindu, 26 January 1950, 1p.
Magritte (photocopy), London Gallery Bulletin, April 1938, 1p.
Modern Art and French Decadence, The Studio, December 1942, 11pp.
Modern Drama: The Architectural Hold-Up, 7pp.
Ode Without Rhetoric, Kingdom Come, Autumn 1940, 3pp.
On Translating Poetry, book review of The Poem Itself, ed. by Stanley Burnshaw, 4pp, journal name not printed.
Paul Gaugin und die moderne Malerie, 8pp, in German, journal name not given.
Postcript to Posterity, Freedom, n.d., 1p.
The Prerequisites of Peace,in War Resistance, 3rd and 4th qtr 1966, 5pp. Full copy of journal.
Present situation of Art in Europe, n.d., 15pp. Collection or journal name not printed.
The Problem of Picasso, Journal of the Royal Society of the Arts, 18 January 1946, 2pp.
Recent tendencies in Abstract Painting, 13pp. Not dated, journal name not printed.
The Revival of Europe, World Review, n.d., 6pp, 2 copies.
Sir Herbert Read on Basil Bunting, 2 paragraphs on a leaflet publicising Bunting's reading of Briggflatts for the BBC.
Stravinsky and the Muses, Tempo, Spring and Summer 1962, 4pp. Full copy of journal.
The Stalinist Fallacy, book review of The Necessit of Art: A Marxist Approach by Ernst Fischer, 8 Nov 1963, 1p.1 manuscript annotation. Attached is a clipping of a letter responding to Read's review.
The Sweated Author, n.d., journal name not printed, 8pp. A response from Geoffrey Faber in the next edition of the journal, headed 'Sailing through the Air' is attached.
T.S.E. A Memoir, offprint, not dated, 27pp.
Thieves of Mercy, a play broadcast on 20 April 1947, 14pp.
To Die to Live, n.d., 5pp. Journal name not printed.
To quote or not to quote, The Times, 10 Jan 1963, 1p.
Two Masters of Modern Art, book reviews of Rouault, by Courthion, and Miro by Dupin, The Reporter, 6 Jun, 1963, 3pp. 3 copies.
Unit One (photocopy), introduction to exhibition catalogue, 4pp.
Views and reviews: Henry Miller, The New English Weekly, 28 Dec 1944, 2pp.
War-time Reactionaryism-I., News-Letter, n.d., 8pp.
'We protest against this Spanish Tyranny [...]', Freedom, 5 April, 1952, 1p.
What is there left to say?, Encounter, Oct 1962, 5pp.
Why I am a Surrealist, New English Weekly, 4, March 1937. Correspondence in The New English Weekly relating to this article is attached.
The World of Froissart, Times Literary Supplement, 9 May, 1929, 2pp. With an envelope addressed to Benedict Read dated 5 November 1969.
Youth and Leisure, an Inaugural Addres given at the Preliminary Youth Conference of Peterborough Joint Education Board, 9 May, 1947, 11pp. With some annotations.
System of arrangement
Articles are filed alphabetically by article title.
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