To Hell with Culture

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.

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;