City of Leeds College of Art

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This file contains 1 signed typescript letter and 1 manuscript letter, both with carbon copies of Herbert Read’s response typed on verso, relating to the City of Leeds College of Art.


The signed typescript letter is to Herbert Read from Eric Taylor, Principal of the City of Leeds College of Art, dated 10 Jul 1967, 1f. The letter thanks Read for giving an address to students of the college and asks permission for a recording of the speech to be circulated among members of the National Society for Art Education. Read agrees in his carbon copy response typed on verso, dated 11 Jul 1967, 1f.


The manuscript letter is to Herbert Read from Roy Slade, Lecturer at the City of Leeds College of Art, dated 19 Jul 1967, 1f. The letter thanks Read for his speech and asks him a number of questions about his opinions on contemporary British art and the Romantic tradition, the role of the machine in the relationship between artist and technology and the state of diversity and tolerance in British art. Read answers these questions in a carbon copy response typed on verso, dated 24 Jul 1967, 1f. He notes that ‘there is not much evidence at present of a return to the Romantic tradition… but there is equally no sign of a return to the Classical or any other tradition – merely a great confusion’ and notes that he is ‘not suspicious of the machine, but of the machinist’.

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