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...The high point for the movement in the UK came in 1936 with the International Surrealist Exhibition put together by Penrose and Herbert Read at London’s New Burlington Galleries....
...“It was founded by Herbert Read and Roland Penrose in the same year as the NHS!” Kalmár says with evident delight. (Actually it was set up a year earlier, in 1947, but close enough.)...
...Founded in 1947 by a group of anarchists, artists and writers including Herbert Read and Roland Penrose, the ICA was destined to live life on the edge....
...The previous year, Nash had sent Roland Penrose and Herbert Read to her studio during a hunt for artists to include in their International Surrealist Exhibition at the New Burlington Galleries....
...And Herbert Read, who opened the show, argued that its contents reflected the “general spirit” of an age dominated by “spiritual unrest, changing moral values, economic and social reconstruction.”...
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