Air Guitar
Dave. Hickey
Bok Engelsk 2012 · Electronic books.
Utgitt | New York : : Art Issues Press, , 2012.
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Omfang | 1 online resource (261 p.)
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Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Unbreak My Heart, An Overture; A Home in the Neon; Simple Hearts; Shining Hours / Forgiving Rhyme; Pontormo's Rainbow; A Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz; The Birth of the Big, Beautiful Art Market; A Life in the Arts; My Weimar; Freaks; The Delicacy of Rock-and-Roll; Dealing; Magazine Writer; A Glass-Bottomed Cadillac; The Little Church of Perry Mason; Romancing the Looky-Loos; The Heresy of Zone Defense; Air Guitar; Lost Boys; This Mortal Magic; Godiva Speaks; Frivolity and Unction; Mayflies, An Envoi. - The 23 essays (or ""love songs"") that make up the now classic volume Air Guitar trawl a ""vast, invisible underground empire"" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book-now in its third edition-has galvanized a generation of art l
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ISBN | 0963726455
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