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Total number of records: 552

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Herbert Read Collection552
Brotherton Collection470
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anarchism201
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modernism (art)201
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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)82
Mcguire, William (1917-)4
Read, Lady Margaret Ludwig (1905-1996)4
Bell, Quentin (1910-1996)3
Kellogg, Rhoda3
Mountford, Charles P (1890-1976)3
Raine, Kathleen (1908-2003)3
Richter, Hans (1888-1976)3
Wight, Frederick Stallknecht (1902-1986)3
Aarons, Anita2

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Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1964

Galley proofs for Read's article 'Leisure and the Arts: atrophied muscles and empty art in 1984', 2ff. For the New Scientist (67), 14 May 1964.

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Art File

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

File titled 'Art', contains typescripts and proofs, some with manuscript notes or corrections. File contains: A nest of gentle artists, typescript A note on Expressionism, typescript, 3ff, two ...

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Art and Alienation

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1966 - 1968

This file contains partial galley proofs enclosed in a dust jacket for Read's book Art and Alienation (London: Thames and Hudson, 1967).

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Art and Industry

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1952 - 1965

2 files of material chiefly relating to photographs for illustrative plates in new editions of Art and Industry. One file is dated c. 1952 and the other c.1965. Some print material relating to industr...

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Art and Society

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1931 - 1946

File labelled 'Art and Society' containing diverse papers. Includes newspaper articles and letters to the editor related to Frank Warburg's address 'Planning for Publishing', which he delivered to t...

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Art Now

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1960

This file contains material relating to the 1960 edition of Art Now published by Faber and Faber.

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The Art of Collaboration

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1949 - 1968

1 typescript carbon copy of The Art of Collaboration with brief manuscript amendments, 10ff. The paper relates to Read's work with Bonamy Dobree on The London Book of English Prose and the London Book...

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The Meaning of Art

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1959-1960

Unbound page proofs for the 1959 edition of 'The Meaning of Art', with a typescript carbon copy of the Prefact to the Portuguese edition.

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Byzantine art

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographs or other reproductions of Byzantine art.

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Chinese art

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographs or other reproductions of Chinese art.

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Egyptian art

1893 - 1968

This file contains photographs or other reproductions of Egyptian art.

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Psychology and art

1893 - 1968

This file contains a photographs, and a letter from Dr. Charles Burns re: psychology and art. Burns returns photographs sent to him by Herbert Read for his appraisal.

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