Routledge · 2024
Art, Elitism, Authenticity and Liberty
Navigating Paradox
A critical examination of the tensions between artistic freedom, cultural elitism, and the politics of authenticity in contemporary art and society.
Books
Five books, written over twenty years of thinking about who culture is for.
Each title is published by Routledge or an academic press. Click through to the publisher's page to read more or buy a copy.
Routledge · 2020
The Outsider, Art and Humour
An investigation into the figure of the outsider in art and the disruptive, liberating role of humour as a tool for cultural critique.
Routledge · 2016
The Creative Underground
Art, Politics and Everyday Life
On underground and counter-cultural art practices, the politics of everyday life, and the spaces where culture is genuinely made.
Routledge · 2013
Charles Bukowski, Outsider Literature and the Beat Movement
A close reading of Bukowski in relation to the Beats, outsider writing, and the long American tradition of literary dissent.
Edwin Mellen Press · 2009
The Arts, Culture and Exclusion
A critical examination of the arts and the extent to which they legitimate social difference or socially integrate the excluded
The foundational study examining whether the arts genuinely integrate the marginalised, or quietly reinforce existing social hierarchies.
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