Quote of the day
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
Marshall Fishwick
Born: July 5, 1923
Died: May 22, 2006 (aged 82)
Bio: Marshall William Fishwick was an American multidisciplinary scholar, professor, writer, and editor who started the academic movement known as popular culture studies and established the journal International Popular Culture.
Known for:
- Seven Pillars of Popular Culture (1985)
- Cicero, Classicism, and Popular Culture (2006)
- Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace (1999)
- Popular Culture in a New Age (2002)
- The Virginia Tradition (1956)