Editing Herbert Read (section)

{{Short description|English anarchist and writer (1893–1968)}}
{{about|Sir Herbert Edward Read, English poet and critic}}
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{{Infobox writer
| honorific_prefix = [[Knight Bachelor|Sir]]
| name         = Herbert Read
| honorific_suffix = [[Distinguished Service Order|DSO]] [[Military Cross|MC]]
| image        = Herbert_Read.JPG
| caption      =
| birth_name   = Herbert Edward Read
| birth_date   = {{birth date|df=yes|1893|12|4}}
| birth_place  = Muscoates, [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], England
| death_date   = {{death date and age|df=yes|1968|6|12|1893|12|4}}
| death_place  = [[Stonegrave]], North Riding of Yorkshire, England
| occupation   = Art historian, literary and art critic
| period       = 1915–1968
| genre        =
| movement     =
| notableworks =
}}
'''Sir Herbert Edward Read''', {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|sep=,|DSO|MC}} ({{IPAc-en|r|iː|d}}; 4 December 1893 – 12 June 1968) was an English [[art historian]], poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for numerous books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]]. As well as being a prominent English [[anarchist]], he was one of the earliest English writers to take notice of [[existentialism]]. He was co-editor with [[Michael Fordham]] and [[Gerhard Adler]] of the British edition in English of ''[[The Collected Works of C. G. Jung]]''.

He was a professor of fine art at [[Edinburgh University]] from 1931 to 1933, a lecturer in art at the [[University of Liverpool]] (1935-36), Leon Fellow at [[University of London]] (1940-42), and [[Charles Eliot Norton]] Professor of Poetry at [[Harvard University]] (1953-54).<ref>[http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/hread.htm]</ref>