New Zealand and Australia
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: New Zealand and Australia
Classmark: BC MS 20c Herbert Read/8/6
Related People: Charles P. Mountford(Sender); Anita Aarons(Sender); Joseph Burke(Sender); Peter Munz(Sender); Rhoda Kellogg(Sender)
Creator(s): Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976); Aarons, Anita; Burke, Joseph; Munz, Peter (1921-); Kellogg, Rhoda
Date(s): c.1962 - 1968
Size and medium: 1 file
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/692792
Collection group(s): English Literature | Special Collections Art | Herbert Read Collection
Description
Substantial file containing correspondence and associated material regarding a lecture tour in New Zealand and Australia in April - May 1963, where Read had also been a visitor at the Australian Unesco Seminar on Art Education. The file also includes more general letters from correspondents based in Australia.
Alongside letters, the file includes documents relating to the Australian Unesco Seminar on Art Education including programmes, copies of lectures, notes on attendees; financial records and receipts relating to the visit and the export of artwork given to Read during the tour.
Much of the correspondence concerns organisation of the lecture tour, the Reads’ itinerary, and subsequent publication of extracts from the lectures by various publications. Files include correspondence with academics at the University of Western Australia, University of Western Australia, Australian national university and the University of Otago. Individual correspondents include Charles P Mountford, Ernest Philpot, Anita Aarons, Joseph Buke (regarding Read's epilogue for 'The Bauhaus' L. Hirschfield Mack, and including a typescript draft of text), Peter Munz, Bernard Hesling and Rhoda Kellogg (regarding the Reads’ stop-over in San Franscisco en route to New Zealand).
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