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Wolfe supported George W. Bush as a political candidate and said he voted for him for president in 2004 because of what he called Bush's "great decisiveness and willingness to fight". [ 50 ] [ 59 ] Bush reciprocated the admiration, and is said to have read all of Wolfe's books, according to friends in 2005. [ 60 ]
Thomas Clayton Wolfe (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938) was an American novelist. [1] [2] He is known largely for his first novel, Look Homeward, Angel (1929), and for the short fiction that appeared during the last years of his life. [1]
Wolfe's thesis in The Painted Word was that by the 1970s, modern art had moved away from being a visual experience, and more often was an illustration of art critics' theories. Wolfe criticized avant-garde art, Andy Warhol, Willem de Kooning, and Jackson Pollock. The main target of Wolfe's book, however, was not so much the artists, as the critics.
Wolfe believed that the buildings of the International Style and Modern Architecture could barely be appreciated by those who had to work in them. [4] Wolfe's critique, however, was not purely aesthetic. As in The Painted Word Wolfe was critical of what he saw as too much adherence to theory. Wolfe characterized the architecture as based on a ...
"The ' Me ' Decade and the Third Great Awakening" is an essay by American author Tom Wolfe, in which Wolfe coined the phrase " 'Me' Decade", a term that became common as a descriptor for the 1970s. The essay was first published as the cover story in the August 23, 1976, issue of New York magazine [ 1 ] and later appeared in his collection Mauve ...
"Radical Wolfe" is only 76 minutes long, but as directed by Richard Dewey, it’s a highly entertaining movie that manages to pack in more or less every important thing you’d want to know about ...
The New Journalism is a 1973 anthology of journalism edited by Tom Wolfe and E. W. Johnson. The book is both a manifesto for a new type of journalism by Wolfe, and a collection of examples of New Journalism by American writers, covering a variety of subjects from the frivolous (baton twirling competitions) to the deadly serious (the Vietnam War).
Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers is a 1970 book by Tom Wolfe.The book, Wolfe's fourth, is composed of two essays: "These Radical Chic Evenings", first published in June 1970 in New York magazine, about a gathering Leonard Bernstein held for the Black Panther Party, and "Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers", about the response of many minorities to San Francisco's poverty programs.