One-Man Manifesto and Other Writings for Freedom Press

by Herbert Read

From his declaration of anarchism in 1937 until his acceptance of a knighthood in 1953, Read contributed to Freedom and its precursors articles, book reviews, poems, and wrote three pamphlets. This volume collects them all, with someof his finest writing on anarchism, art, culture, and politics. Includes an excellent, lengthy, contextual introduction from David Goodway.

208 pages, Paperback

First published June 1, 1994

About the author

Sir Herbert Edward Read, (1893 - 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. Politically, Read considered himself an anarchist, albeit in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and William Morris.

Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Art & the publisher and editor-in-chief of Jung's collected works in English.

On 11 November 1985, Read was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner.

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

Reviews

[Owen Hatherley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Probably my favourite bit is where he compares himself to Gandhi for accepting a knighthood