Culture of Complaint: The Fraying of America (American Lectures)
by:
Robert Hughes (author)
Acclaimed critic Robert Hughes, the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore and Barcelona, delivers a pointed, no-holds-barred critique aimed at the heart of American politics, culture, and art. A scathing vision of a nation "obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust . . . skeptical of...
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Acclaimed critic Robert Hughes, the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore and Barcelona, delivers a pointed, no-holds-barred critique aimed at the heart of American politics, culture, and art. A scathing vision of a nation "obsessed with therapies and filled with distrust . . . skeptical of authority and prey to superstition."
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780195076769 (0195076761)
Publish date: April 22nd 1993
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Writing,
Essays,
History,
Literature,
American,
Criticism,
Art,
Culture,
Politics,
Philosophy,
Sociology
Henry Louis Gates, Jr. reviewed Robert Hughes' (author of Fatal Shore) new book, The Culture of Complaint in the April 19, 1993 issue of The New Yorker. Hughes takes aim at both the Right and the Left who are both involved with politicizing culture: "If someone agrees with us on the aims and uses of...
Short and straight forward discussion of American society. Looking at it again, the examples seem tame compared to the culture today.
Short and straight forward discussion of American society. Looking at it again, the examples seem tame compared to the culture today.
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