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Brotherton Collection7
Herbert Read Collection7
English Literature3

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anarchism3
art3
art, modern3
english poetry3
modernism (art)3
sculpture, modern3

Archive File

The Empty Landscape

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1915 - 1968

2 typescript carbon copies of a prose piece titled 'The Empty Landscape', regarding landscape in painting and quoting from Baudelaire and Kierkegaard.

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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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Archive Object File

Personal objects

c.1914-1968

This file contains the following personal objects from the Read archive: 1 thin brown belt 1 brown leather document wallet, with Herbert E. Read, January 16th 1904 written in pen inside.

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Book review scrapbooks

1919 - c 1963

Two scrapbooks, one with printed articles pasted in. The articles are predominantly book reviews by Herbert Read, from journals including the Criterion and the Spectator. The second scrapbook is empty...

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Holiday

21 Jul 1965 - 5 May 1966

This file contains 1 signed typescript letter to Herbert Read from Arno Karlen, Senior Editor of Holiday, dated 21 Jul 1965, 1f.

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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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Miscellaneous articles

Read, Sir Herbert Edward (1893-1968)

1929-1969

This file contains clippings and offprints of published articles, letters, poems and plays by Herbert Read. In most cases the articles have been cut from their original context, but where an entire co...

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