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Record Nr.

UNINA9910783805203321

Autore

Read Herbert <1893-1968., >

Titolo

To hell with culture : and other essays on art and society / / Herbert Read ; with a new introduction by Michael Paraskos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2002

ISBN

1-134-43830-3

0-8369-2918-7

1-283-88248-5

1-134-43831-1

1-280-11207-7

0-203-99466-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (228 p.)

Collana

Routledge Classics

Classificazione

20.19

Disciplina

306

824/.912

Soggetti

Culture

Democracy

Socialism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

First published 1963 by Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Herbert Read: to Hell with Culture and Other Essays on Art and Society; Copyright; Contents; Introduction to the Routledge Classics Edition; Preface; Author's Note; 1. Introduction; 2. To Hell with Culture; 3. The Politics of the Unpolitical; 4. The Cult of Leadership; 5. A Civilization from Under; 6. The Symptoms of Decadence; 7. The Collective Patron; 8. The Secret of Success; 9. The Freedom of the Artist; 10. The Nature of Revolutionary Art; 11. The Psychology of Reaction; 12. The Problem of Pornography; 13. Civilization and the Sense of Quality; 14. The Great Debate

15. The Arts and PeaceIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Herbert Read was a maverick character in the cultural life of the twentieth 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. To Hell with Culture offers readers an ideal overview of the ideas that marked out this seminal and hugely influential thinker. It is a controversial work that engages the reader in a wide range of topics, from revolutionary art to pornography.Adept at challenging assumptions and penetr