Herbert Edward Read (1893-1968) was a British art historian, poet, literary critic and philosopher, best known for his books on art, which included influential volumes on the role of art in education. Read was co-founder of the Institute of Contemporary Arts. Read considered himself an anarchist, in the English quietist tradition of Edward Carpenter and […]
100 Books: Texts That Influenced My Intellectual Thinking and Scholarship–Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class
January 12, 2020 by
Conspicuous consumption is a term introduced by the Norwegian-American economist and sociologist Thorstein Veblen in his book The Theory of the Leisure Class, published in 1899.
00 Levy Books: Making of, Animation, Album Books, Signed Volumes
January 10, 2020 by
00 Levy Books: Making of, Animation, Album Books, Signed Volumes
Film Theory: Reception Theory–Books
December 22, 2019 by
Bobo, Jacqueline. Back Women as Cultural Readers. NY: Columbia Univ Press, 1995. Study of black women’s response to Color Purple. Share this:
American Culture: Subculture; Counterculture; Biblio; Notes
November 24, 2019 by
Biblio: Levine, Lawrence. Highbrow/Lowbrow: The Making of Culture Hierarchy in America. NY: Basic Books, 1990. Mitchell, W. J. T. (ed). Politics of Interpretation. 1983. Roszak, Theodore. The Making of Counter-Culture. Doubleday, 1969. Said, Edward. “Opponents, Audiences, Constituencies, and Community.” In Mitchell, W. J. T. (ed). Politics of Interpretation. 1983. Slater, Philip E. The Pursuit of […]
