These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

This work both changed fundamentally his own life’s work throughout his remaining twenty-five years and provided art education with a rationale of unprecedented lucidity and persuasiveness. Read perhaps was the closest England came to an existentialist theorist of the European tradition. ) Herbert Read Reassessed (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press 1998)
King James The Last Modern: A Life of Herbert Read (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson 1990)
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Sir Herbert Edward Read DSO MC (1893–1968) was an English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art.