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Total number of records: 17

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Archives16
Art items1

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Brotherton Collection17
Herbert Read Collection17
English Literature4

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anarchism4
art4
art, modern4
english poetry4
modernism (art)4
sculpture, modern4

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Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)13
Gabo, Naum (1890-1977)1
Read, Piers Paul (1941-)1

Archive File

Untitled: Outline for a play

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Untitled manuscript outline for a play, on squared paper. Characters include Sir William Fielding and his wife.

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Untitled: 'This is Blatchford, of course'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1925

Untitled manuscript response to an article regarding the poet Laureate, 4ff. Published newspaper article(s?) are attached. The response begins, 'This is Blatchford, of course: so I approach with due r...

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Untitled: 'sculpture in alliance with architecture'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Single page of an unidentified typescript carbon copy, which begins and ends mid-sentence. The page begins 'sculpture in alliance with architercture) can encompass the whose destiny of mankind [...].'

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Notes: Untitled black folder

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968); Gabo, Naum (1890-1977)

1919-1967

Diverse manuscript and typescript notes, excerpts from books, printed material and newspaper clippings collected together in an untitled black folder prior to arrival in Special Collections. Subjects ...

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Untitled: 'Stained glass, a term that is'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Untitled galley proof, pasted onto numbered pages. Begins 'Stained glass, a term that is generally understood to refer only to glass windows'.

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Untitled: 'We said that in the time of Polykleitos'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1932

Untitled carbon copies, possibly of lectures or articles. Some pages missing.The first begins, 'We said that in the time of Polykleitos the sculptured human body was put together from a series of part...

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Untitled: 'I begin to write this last book'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Manuscript draft introducation to a possibly unwritten book.

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Untitled: 'The condition of Europe in the nineteenth century…'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Untitled typescript carbon copy which begins, 'The condition of Europe in the nineteenth century'.

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Untitled: 'The criticism of Royal Academy exhibitions'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1932

This file contains an untitled typescript carbon copy of a proposal that begins, 'The criticism of Royal Academy exhibitions can never be very profitable because they are always too heterogeneous in s...

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Untitled: 'The lecturer dealt with the clash of ideals'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

c. 1932

Untitled typescript carbon copy summary of a lecture regarding classical and indigenous cultures, 2ff. Begins, 'The lecturer dealt with the clash of ideals'.

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Untitled: 'Wir solche Mutationen in der Entwicklung'

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

Untitled typescript in German. The typescript begins with an essay on Modern Egnlish art, but ends with typescript poems with manuscript annotations.

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Roderic Knowles: Untitled [Statement re artists]

1963

Typescript copy of an article-length statement to promote the work of artists in industry, architecture and local government. A covering letter from Knowles and a carbon copy of Read's response are in...

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