Although knighted for his services to literature,
Herbert Read (1893-1968) is best known throughout the world as a missionary for modern art and a writer of key books on art and industry, art and society and art in education. He had a particularly close relationship with sculptor and fellow Yorkshireman
Henry Moore. Professor Norbert Lynton assesses Read the poet, the literary critic and the art theorist.
Reader John Moffatt.