Air Guitar
What:
Air Guitar
Who:
Dave Hickey
Where:
Please ask at your favourite bookshop before you go here
When:
Do it now
How much:
Worth more than US $13.57
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Dave Hickey is the love child of Hunter S. Thompson, Lester Bangs, Giorgio Vasari, Anais Nin, Mark Twain, Hannah Arendt, Susan Sontag and, still skimping on his alimony, Lenny Bruce. To wit, he is: promiscuously inclusive, as humanly warm as pee-pee on denim, smarter than a dagger, as serious as your life and funnier than a muthafucka.
Subtitled ‘Essays on Art & Democracy', Air Guitar is like having an old, acid-dropping art professor - and Hickey is exactly that - drop by and just talk about stuff. All kinds of stuff. Like how Wild Style graffiti is part of an 300-year-old orientalist art tradition which includes psychedelic concert posters and the pre-Raphaelites. Basketball. Perry Mason. Siegfried and Roy. Flaubert. Keith Richards. Hot dogs.
Usually all at once and with a conviction that all these things really matter. The hot dogs as much as the pre-Raphaelites. So if ‘Art & Democracy' basically sums up the things in the world that Hickey digs on (i.e. everything) then it'll be in this book. His style is a kind of perfection - simultaneously as giddy as altitude sickness, as beautiful as the mountain itself, and as perilous as the highest fall.
Format: Book
Motivation: Improves creativity by osmosis
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