Stefan Szczelkun

The Conspiracy of Good Taste (eBook, ePUB)

William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough Williams-Ellis and the repression of working class culture in the C20th

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"The Conspiracy of Good Taste is a passionate analysis of the way working class culture has been appropriated and sanitised by middle class mediators of taste. Using the case studies of William Morris, Cecil Sharp and Clough William-Ellis, Szczelkun challenges their often widely seen role as enlightened political artists. He persuasively argues that there is a classist agenda that includes concepts of good taste that amount to oppression of true working class culture. The work also grapples with class identity as a context for the author's critique. The book will certainly have you thinking carefully about taste, class and who dictates what is accepted culture. The book is tightly written, very readable and is a good start to exploring Szczelkun's other work." Richard Turner

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Stefan Szczelkun
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781870736701
• Artikelnr.: 49265396

Autorenporträt

Stefan studied architecture in the late Sixties before realising he wanted to be an artist. He then engaged in a long process of self-discovery of what it meant to be a second generation Polish immigrant and a working class person who wanted to work in a middle-class profession. In the process of his explorations he took part of a series of artists collectives. Realising that these exciting groups were not in the books on art history he decided to do a doctoral study of the group he was currently part of - Exploding Cinema. He completed his PhD at the Royal College of Art in 2002 and was working at Westminster University until his recent retirement.