To Hell With Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415289931 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 240 str.

Herbert Read

Opis

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the 20th century. A radical leader of the avant garde in the 1930s and an anarchist revolutionary during the war years, by the time of his death in 1968 he had become a key figure at the heart of the British cultural establishment.

Recenzje

'He writes about books and pictures with unbeatable authority and with a style that is almost an art in itself.' - The New Yorker

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 To Hell with Culture; Chapter 3 The Politics of the Unpolitical; Chapter 4 The Cult of Leadership; Chapter 5 A Civilization from Under; Chapter 6 The Symptoms of Decadence; Chapter 7 The Collective Patron; Chapter 8 The Secret of Success; Chapter 9 The Freedom of the Artist; Chapter 10 The Nature of Revolutionary Art; Chapter 11 The Psychology of Reaction; Chapter 12 The Problem of Pornography; Chapter 13 Civilization and the Sense of Quality; Chapter 14 The Great Debate; Chapter 15 The Arts and Peace;

O autorze

Sir Herbert Read (1893-1968). Leading poet, publisher, educational theorist and social reformer, who was one of the most influential art critics of the twentieth century.