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Recollections of Herbert Read.

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Recollections of Herbert Read.
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Bib. Number0003122

Recollections of Herbert Read.

Video/Audio
PublisherBritish Broadcasting Corporation
Place PublishedLondon
Year
Date & Collation5 min extract.Sound recording.
LanguageEnglish
More InformationRadio 3 broadcast 4 Dec 1977. Interviewer Basil TAYLOR. Written and presented by Hugh Sykes DAVIES. Contributions by Henry MOORE, totalling about 5 minutes, include how he welcomed Surrealism as an antidote to pure abstraction which neither he nor Read believed in completely. Moore spoke of Read as champion of contemporary art in England at a time when modern art needed the support of critics. Moore also mentions Read's scholarship and dedication.