"En la Historia, las aguas estancadas, sean las de la costumbre o las del despotismo, no toleran la vida; La vida depende de la agitación que realizan unos pocos individuos excéntricos.
En homenaje a esa vida, a esa vitalidad, la comunidad debe aceptar ciertos riesgos, debe admitir una porción de herejía.
Debe vivir peligrosamente si es que quiere vivir."
-Herbert Read
#Anarquismo #Anarquismo #Libertad #Felicidad #Eudaimonia #Plenitud #ApoyoMutuo #AyudaMutua #HerbertRead #Filosofia

"En la Historia, las aguas estancadas, sean las de la costumbre o las del despotismo, no toleran la vida; La vida depende de la agitación que realizan unos pocos individuos excéntricos.
En homenaje a esa vida, a esa vitalidad, la comunidad debe aceptar ciertos riesgos, debe admitir una porción de herejía.
Debe vivir peligrosamente si es que quiere vivir."
-Herbert Read
#Anarquismo
#Anarquia
#HerbertRead
#VivirIntensamente
#Pasion
#Rebeldia
#Vitalidad
#Filosofia

@dunadigital
I'm not sure, but you may have in mind how, once an artist makes a new
discovery, he or she and others may just go on milking it.

This is how I understand words of #RGCollingwood in *Speculum Mentis*
(1924) that #HerbertRead quotes in *A Concise History of Modern
Painting* (1968):

> To the historian accustomed to studying the growth of scientific or
> philosophical knowledge, the history of art presents a painful and
> disquieting spectacle, for it seems normally to proceed not forwards
> but backwards. In science and philosophy successive workers in the
> same field produce, if they work ordinarily well, an advance; and a
> retrograde movement always implies some breach of continuity. But in
> art, a school once established normally deteriorates as it goes on. It
> achieves perfection in its kind with a startling burst of energy, a
> gesture too quick for the historian's eye to follow. He can never
> explain such a movement or tell us how exactly it happened. But once
> it is achieved, there is the melancholy certainty of a decline.

Who here is a fan of Herbert Read's work and writing? For someone who was so influential in his fields, not that many people know of him, and most that do know only of his work in the field of art aesthetics (rather than his work in philosophical anarchism).

https://medium.com/socrates-cafe/sir-herbert-reads-7-steps-to-anarchism-fbeb7321378e?sk=f00884ead0289d3d1112e5436d1ae9ba

#WritingCommunity #HerbertRead #Anarchism #Aesthetic #Philosophy #Art #Politics #History @medium #Medium

30 November 2022, the next event in the Henry Moore Institute’s Reassessing Herbert Read season, an online lecture by Shantel Blakely, “The Architect as Universal Man: Herbert Read's Ideal of the Architect as an Aesthetic Polymath”
#HerbertRead

https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/the-architect-as-universal-man/

Herbert Read: A Gentle Radical: a small exhibition at the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds #modernism #HerbertRead
https://henry-moore.org/whats-on/herbert-read-a-gentle-radical/

@LeedsTours @oliverlouis

2/Re #InterwarYorkshire I know of no general account (pls let me know if you learn of one!) Am relying on novels, memoirs & biogs:
*Winifred Holtby's South Riding (1935); great on local politics. *Lettice Cooper's Leeds novel, National Provincial (1938), similarly. *Caroline Maclean's Circles and Squares (2020) on #HenryMoore, #BarbaraHepworth & #HerbertRead.
*#EdCaesar's #Moth&theMountain, on the eccentric Maurice Wilson, Bradford manufacturer's son. What a read!

#Camus, #AlbertCamus in #TheRebel talks about the need for moderation, a self-imposed #limit The Ancient Greek #Nemesis was limits. Go beyond your limits and bad things happen: hangovers, pollution,wars, nuclear catastarophes..
http://libgen.rocks/ads.php?md5=EB09902073DB033C04AC084877425253
This book, with #MythOfSisyphus, works like a secular bible, when someone need a little help, some clear thought to avoid doing something awful, stupid: to avoid going beyond reasonable limits, good sense... #HerbertRead seems interesting too.