George Walden
Autor de The New Elites: Making a Career in the Masses
Obras de George Walden
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1939-09-15
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Educación
- University of Cambridge (Jesus College)
- Ocupaciones
- journalist
politician - Relaciones
- Walden, Celia (daughter)
Miembros
Reseñas
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 13
- Miembros
- 129
- Popularidad
- #156,299
- Valoración
- 2.9
- Reseñas
- 2
- ISBNs
- 21
“Access has come to mean lowering intellectual as well as other barriers, and, as cultural condescension has become official policy, pissing on the masses -- smilingly, as if dispensing champagne - is now standard practice among persons of authority in the arts.... Under New Labour, a kind of intellectual soft porn has come to permeate the ether, which makes it possible for a BBC arts correspondent to declare... that a photo-montage in a department store by Sam Taylor-Wood bears comparison with the works of the Renaissance because Renaissance patrons, too, commissioned large works for public places”.… (más)