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This New York Times bestseller ignited national debate when it was released in hardcover. Now in paperback, Culture of Complaint is a brilliant, passionate examination of multiculturalism in America today, and what Robert Hughes sees as its devastating effects on the nation. "Exhilarating".-- Newsweek
- Sales Rank: #1088803 in Books
- Published on: 1994-09-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x .68" w x 5.25" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
From Publishers Weekly
The art critic offers a withering jeremiad for an American culture plagued by political correctness in this PW bestseller.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Library Journal
Hughes, Time magazine's art critic and author of The Fatal Shore ( LJ 11/1/86) and Barcelona ( LJ 1/92), here takes on three subjects: the current state of American culture and politics; the arguments for and against multiculturalism in schools and colleges; and what he regards as the declining standards of American art and museums. On the first topic, he attacks Americans for having become a culture of complainers, symbolized by their growing claims to be victims of this or that injustice and their demands for the expansion of rights without concern for duties and obligations. On the second issue, he argues for a sound multiculturalism but rejects Afrocentrism and political correctness that rules out dead, white European males such as Plato and Dante. On the third subject, he sees the decline of American art symbolized by the Mapplethorpe controversy, which elevated a minor photographer into the limelight, and politicaly correct art that believes expressiveness, not quality, is enough. Of primary interest to academic and larger public libraries.
- Jeffrey R. Herold, Bucyrus P.L., Ohio
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
It's hard not to be stirred up and entertained by the three jeremiad-essays Hughes (Barcelona, 1992, etc.) offers here. He goes scatter-shooting at cows with very broad sides: the American talent for ``the twin fetishes of victimhood and redemption''; the PC academy (`` `The Canon,' that oppressive Big Bertha whose muzzle is trained...at the black, the gay, and the female. The Canon, we're told, is a list of books by dead Europeans--Shakespeare and Dante and Tolstoy...you know them, the pale patriarchal penis people''); postmodern architects (``the pediment-quoting Ralph Laurens of their profession''); Jean-Michel Basquiat (``the black Chatterton of the 80's''). Hughes deplores the ``multi-culti'' scam of a cultural establishment unwilling to stand up to the Jesse Helms-types and thus retreating into an homogenization that doles out quality to all so that none will rise too high to be chopped down. But real European- or Australian-style multiculturalism, he argues, is of great benefit--a haunting of one culture by another, an enrichening. So far so good (if glitzy: for Time's art-critic, there's no idea whose subtlety can't be sacrificed for a clever line). But the swaggering postures Hughes assumes all over the room are convincing only in the brightest-lit corners. He does a little historical background for his best point--that art for Americans has always been a therapeutic activity--but elsewhere hardly a background is shaded in. The problematics behind our melding of cultures, behind a moral issue such as abortion, or underlying formalism and shock-aesthetics--these Hughes avoids drilling into deeply. Mostly, it seems, he's writing to the small, disenchanted section of the same go-go cultural guild he bewails; in such tight company, he has to do little more than press journalistic hot buttons cleverly. Not since John Gardner's On Moral Fiction (1978) have we had such a pellet-gun shower of right-wing leftism, back-to-basics positivism--and like Gardner's, it settles down more as vanitas than veritas. -- Copyright ©1993, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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20 of 22 people found the following review helpful.
A call for skilled, complex, and eclectic thought
By J. Remington
Granted, attacking contemporary America's cultural love for the debased, the self-indulgent extreme, the hapless and unskilled mediocrity as well as the insipid cults that have risen around exhalting the helpless victim, nurturing the stunted "inner child" and bandaging the wounded self-esteem seems too obvious.
Fortunately TIME Magazine Art Critic and writer extraordinaire Robert Hughes laces his acid-dripping pen with adroit observations and incredible verbal acrobatics in an all-out attack that provides hints of solutions and actual celebrations of all that is good in America.
Hughes pulls no punches and spares no prisoners as he lambasts (always with great aplomb and wit) extremism from both sides. Liberals and Conservatives receive broadsword swashes and pin-point snipes in equal measures. Hughes calls ultimately calls for true eclectism as opposed to multi-culturalism- a movement in his mind that wrongly excludes other cultures in favor of often fictious historical revisionism.
The rich bounty of American Culture, Hughes claims-the very culture that inspired him to leave Australia and settle in New York- lies in her melting pot of culture. America, in Hughes' expert eye, is a beautiful amalgamation of many cultures: European, Native, African, Spanish, Asian and so forth. He sees history as a complex organism made up of many diverse parts. Effective scholarship, debate and production must incorperate all while eschewing the demagoguery and finger pointing that tragically seems to prevail in so much public discourse.
Make no mistake,like any good critic or thinker, Hughes is out to pick a fight and he certainly challenges all comers. One may not agree with all of his points or supports, but that isn't the point. Hughes' number one objective is to confront American apathy with an electo-shock to the system.
In short, Hughes does indeed call for a certain brand of elitism in both art and public life. An elitism bred not of social class, race or economics but rather an hierarchy based upon skill, intelligence and vision.
THE CULTURE OF COMPLAINT will challenge the reader as well as entertain. A magnificent read.
0 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Extremely uneven and very dated book... written ...
By Jay S.
Extremely uneven and very dated book... written back when the "Right" was the threat... Now as the "Progressive" juggernaut unfolds, this seems mostly irrelevant.
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful.
Six years old, still worth reading
By Andrew Dennington
This is probably the best of the anti-PC books that came out in the early 1990s. Others like Arthur Scheslinger's "The Disuniting of America" are boring by comparison. Who knows how or when this debate about the "culture wars" will resolve itself, but I think later scholars will see this as a book that stands out from the scores of simplistic anti-PC rants that are published each year. (Oxford University Press hasn't really cornered that market.)
And this is for one simple reason... Hughes attacks the "politically correct" Left and the "patriotically correct" Right equally in this manifesto. They are two sides of the same coin, he argues. Religious fundamentalists and PC revisionists are appealing to the same sense of anti-reason. This book is more than just another right-wing, anti-PC rant. He asks, what it is about Ronald Reagan's attack on the mythical Welfare Queen and the Left's charge that Christopher Columbus is a "murderer" that makes them both popular on their respective sides of the political spectrum? How are the two arguments, and by extension, the people who make them, similar?
This is not a the-world-is-going-to-hell-in-a-handbasket book either. Hughes predicts that the high tide of PC will recede, leaving behind its scum of dead words on the beach, ready to wither away and die in the sunlight of reason.
One last reason why the book gets five stars is that Hughes only takes 200 or so pages to get to this conclusion, but you still feel like you got hit by a wall of solid evidence. Sometimes I wish the book did have footnotes (the original hardback doesn't at least) so that I could track down some of the erudite Hughes' more obscure targets. But then again, this book is just a collection of addresses delievered at Yale, not an academic tome. It's the best of both worlds-- a cri de coeur that never gets fluffy or emotional.
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