Barthes's Mythologies
1957 · Work
Short essays reading wrestling, steak and detergent adverts as myth; the book that taught a generation to decode popular culture.
On these timelines: Arts and Thoughts, Master, France
More from Arts and Thoughts
- Homer's Iliad and Odyssey (750 BCE)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Plato's Republic written (375 BCE)
- Shakespeare's Hamlet (1601)
- Renaissance (1400)
- Scientific Revolution (1543)
- Age of Enlightenment (1685)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
Around 1957
- Apartheid (1948)
- Korean War (1950)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- US Civil Rights Movement (1954)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Suez Crisis (1956)
- Berlin Airlift (1948)
- Cuban Revolutionary War (1953)
- Decolonisation of Africa (1952)