UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
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Type of record: Archive
Title: UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/11/137
Related People: Sir Herbert E. Read(Recipient); Christopher Hawkes(Sender); Charles P. Mountford(Sender)
Creator(s): Hawkes, Christopher (1905-); Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976)
Date(s): Jul 1951 - 10 Jun 1968
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692689
Collection group(s): Herbert Read Collection
Description
This file contains correspondence and associated material relating to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization).
Correspondence includes letters to Herbert Read from Christopher Hawkes, President of the Prehistoric Society; Peter Bellew of UNESCO; Jean Thomas, Director of the Department of Cultural Activities at UNESCO; Trevor Thomas, Programme Specialist for Arts in Education at UNESCO; Charles P. Mountford; Luther H. Evans, Director-General of UNESCO; Misha Black of the Design Research Unit; John R. Richards, Chairman of the United States National Commission for UNESCO; Charles T. McNerney Jr. of the Visual Arts Section, Division of International Cultural Exchanges at UNESCO; Vittorino Veronese, Director-General of UNESCO; Dr. d’Arcy Hayman, Head of the Section on Education through the Arts, Division of Arts and Letters at UNESCO; Rene Maheu, Director-General of UNESCO; Michael Beausang of the Division of Educational Information and Materials at UNESCO; Ronald S. Kirkman of the Visual Arts Section, Arts Division at UNESCO and Marcelle Vallet of the Dissemination of Culture Section at UNESCO.
The correspondence discusses Read’s contribution to various UNESCO-related publications including a Handbook of Art Education for the sixth General Conference of UNESCO, 1952; the introduction to a Portfolio of Cave paintings, 1953; a chapter to a book titled ‘The Role and Function of the Arts in Contemporary Society’, 1965; the text for the Henry Moore volume of the UNESCO Pocket Art series, 1966 and the introduction for the catalogue of the ‘UNESCO Water Colours Exhibition on Artists of the 19th and 20th Centuries’, 1957. Read also served on the Committee of Artistic Advisors for the establishment of a permanent UNESCO headquarters building throughout the 1960s.
The file also includes typescript notes from the UNESCO Art Education Seminar, dated 8 – 27 Jul 1951; 4 typescript documents relating to the proposal for an International Center for Ceramic Sculpture, 1952; typescript booklets for the ‘International Associations of Plastic Arts’ and the ‘Sixth National Conference Convened by the United States National Commission for UNESCO’, both 1957 and typescript meeting minutes relating to the Committee of Artistic Advisors for the establishment of a permanent UNESCO headquarters building, dated 1957 and 1963.
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