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　　'He writes about books and pictures with unbeatable authority and with a style that is almost an art in itself.' - The New Yorker
　　He writes about books and pictures with unbeatable authority and with a style that is almost an art in itself. - The New Yorker
　　Product Description
　　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.
　　About the Author
　　Herbert Read (1893-1968) was one of the leading cultural figures of his day. He was a widely published poet and literary critic, an important art critic, an academic (Edinburgh, Liverpool, Royal College of Arts and Yale), trustee of the Tate Gallery, a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum and a magazine editor. Most importantly for us, he was also editorial director of Routledge - it is thanks to him that many of the books published in Routledge Classics were published by us in the first place. It is therefore very fitting to have him in the series.