Editing Herbert Read (section)

==Death and legacy==
[[File:Herbert Read (1966).jpg|thumb|Herbert Read in 1966]]
Following his death in 1968, Read was probably neglected due to the increasing predominance in academia of theories of art, including Marxism, which discounted his ideas. Yet his work continued to have influence. It was through Read's writings on anarchism that [[Murray Bookchin]] was inspired in the mid-1960s to explore the connections between anarchism and ecology.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dwardmac.pitzer.edu/Anarchist_Archives/bookchin/ecologyandrev.html |first=Murray |last=Bookchin |publisher=[[Anarchy Archives]] |editor=Dana Ward |editor-link=Dana Ward |title=Ecology and Revolutionary Thought |access-date=26 April 2011}}</ref> In 1971, a collection of his writings on anarchism and politics was republished, ''Anarchy and Order,'' with an introduction by [[Howard Zinn]].<ref>Boston: Beacon Press, 1971; originally published by Faber and Faber in 1954.</ref> In the 1990s, there was a revival of interest in him following a major exhibition in 1993 at Leeds City Art Gallery and the publication of a collection of his anarchist writings, ''A One-Man Manifesto and other writings for Freedom Press'', edited by David Goodway.<ref>{{cite book | last = Read | first = Herbert | title = A One-Man manifesto : and other writings for Freedom Press | publisher = [[Freedom Press]] |editor1-first=David |editor1-last=Goodway |editor-link=David Goodway |location = London |year= 1994 |isbn = 978-0-900384-72-1 |oclc=30919061 }}</ref> Since then, more of his work has been republished and there was a ''Herbert Read Conference'', at [[Tate Britain]] in June 2004. The library at the [[Cyprus College of Art]] is named after him, as is the art gallery at the [[University for the Creative Arts]] at [[Canterbury]]. Until the 1990s the [[Institute of Contemporary Arts]] in London staged an annual Herbert Read Lecture, which included well-known speakers such as [[Salman Rushdie]].

On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in [[Westminster Abbey]]'s [[Poet's Corner]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/poets.html|title=Poets|work=byu.edu|access-date=17 January 2015}}</ref> The inscription on the stone was taken from [[Wilfred Owen]]'s "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://net.lib.byu.edu/english/wwi/poets/Preface.html|title=Preface|work=byu.edu|access-date=17 January 2015}}</ref>

A 1937 reading by Read lasting seven minutes and titled ''The Surrealist Object'' can be heard on the audiobook CD ''Surrealism Reviewed'', published in 2002.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ltmrecordings.com/surrealismreviewednotes.html|title=Automatic Redirect|work=ltmrecordings.com|access-date=17 January 2015}}</ref>

He was the father of the well-known writer [[Piers Paul Read]], the BBC documentary maker [[John Read (art film maker)|John Read]], the BBC producer and executive Tom Read, and the art historian [[Ben Read]].