The point I am making is that in the more primitive forms of society the individual is merely a unit; in more developed forms of society he is an independent personality.

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)
Paraskos Michael (ed.

Sir Herbert Edward Read DSO MC (1893–1968) was an English anarchist poet and critic of literature and art.