Huntly Carter

Huntly Carter (1862? - 29 March 1942) was a British journalist, art critic, and lecturer. He is known as one of the earliest writers to introduce Soviet avant-garde theatre to British audiences.

Life Carter was born in 1861 or 1862. By the 1910s he was established in London as a journalist and arts critic. He contributed to the modernist periodical The New Age, edited by A. R. Orage, where he wrote the "Art and Drama" column and served as international editor. He also wrote for The Egoist. He engaged with Cubism, the visual arts of the Camden Town Group, and emerging avant-garde movements across Europe.

Carter was a member of the 1917 Club, alongside Aldous Huxley and many others associated with progressive politics and the arts. He published articles in Soviet periodicals including Izvestia, Vecherniaia Moskva, and Zhizn' iskusstva, and he regularly participated in cultural exchange programs between the Soviet Union and Great Britain. Carter documented his travels in photographs now held at the University of Notre Dame. He also edited a series of volumes on political and social reform in England.

His work on European theater, particularly his study of Max Reinhardt, established him as an expert on the transformations that war and revolution had on theatrical form across the continent.

Archives Carter's personal papers and research materials are held in two principal repositories: The Huntly Carter Papers at the University of Notre Dame,