Education Through Art

by Herbert Read

Education Through Art

Genres: Art, Education, Literature

394 pages

First published January 1, 1967

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

[Brett Gershon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Outstanding! Read argues for a pedagogy which would require a complete transformation of our educational institutions: one that holds at it's core the integration of sense perception and logic / what is felt and experienced to what is known. It is, Read would argue, our system of authoritarian education, which seeks to mold each individual into an ideal of character that is predetermined by society which keeps individuals disintegrated, fragmented and at worst neurotic.

Part pedagogical critique, part developmental psychology, "Education Through Art" is a priceless text for parents, teachers, child/adolescent therapists (anyone who works with or is interested in the raising up of young people).

[Leonor · Rating 4 out of 5]

Who cares about education and art, not lose this book
Quem se interessa pelo ensino e pela arte, a não perder.