Mammonart: An essay in economic interpretation

Name: Mammonart: An essay in economic interpretation
Author: Upton Sinclair
ISBN: 9781802568097

Author: Upton Sinclair
Read by: Eloise Fairfax
Language: English
Length: 14 hours 35 minutes
ISBN: 9781802568097
Published: 17 August 2025
Imprint: Sovereign

art and economics
social criticism
cultural theory
class struggle
capitalism and art
artistic freedom
patronage
literature and society
political art
economic determinism

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Sinclair asks who pays for art, and what that money does to the truth painters and writers are allowed to tell. Patronage, class, and the myth of the free genius. Spoken as a useful argument for anyone who wants culture read with the purse in view.

Author

Upton Sinclair (1878–1968) wrote The Jungle and a long shelf of muckraking novels in which industry is the villain. The Chicago stockyards novel was meant to convert readers to socialism; it converted them to food reform instead — and still stands as American protest fiction at documentary heat. Sinclair kept going: oil, coal, journalism, politics, a career of books used as weapons.

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Ebook · English · Sovereign9781802568080