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Title: Lipstick Traces: A Secret History of the 20th Century by Greil Marcus ISBN: 0-674-53581-2 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1990 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (18 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: 99 Molotov Cocktails on the Wall
Comment: Think non-linear. Think connective. This book isn't exactly art history or criticism, it isn't a manual on how to start an artistic revolution, it isn't sociological theory - but it touches on all these.
Marcus traces currents of thought and action in musical and artistic "movements" in an illuminating and inspiring way that swings from such 20th century horrors as Nazi death camps to Michael Jacksons' "Thriller", although he gets bogged down in the second half with the "lettristes" who really, from his description, don't sound exciting enough to spend so much time on. Okay, letter poetry, sounds stupid, what next?
The person this book would be perfect for is the edgy artist who needs some instigation (the person who recommended it to me), intellectual "punk rock" fan (I might qualify), or the anarchist with a taste for literature (who I am mailing my copy to).
If you are unfamiliar with the situationists, the sex pistols, the dadaists, European revolutions, etc. then this book is a good starting point. (I'd never heard of Guy Debord but the extensive quotes from "Society of the Spectacle" convinced me to rush out and read that, too.)
Rating: 5
Summary: A tremendous catalyst for intellectual growth
Comment: LIPSTICK TRACES is a tremendous brain expander. We talk sometimes of "expanding one's consciousness," and of no book is that more appropriate than this one. Marcus is not merely brilliant in what he writes; he is brilliant in the artists and writers and works of art he points you towards. You will find yourself scurrying off to buy copies of THE SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, bootleg CDs of the Sex Pistols, and hard-to-find copies of movies like 20 MILLION YEARS TO EARTH, and will find yourself enriched by the process.
But the main reason to get this book is that it is a lot of fun. Maybe I am weird, but I had none of the sense that some of the other readers had: that it is hard, that it bogs down, that it is a slow read. Maybe its all the Wittgenstein, Hegel, and Kierkegaard I read in grad school, but I found this book to be an absolute page turner. I give it my highest recommendation.
Rating: 3
Summary: Just read it!
Comment: Just read it! If you have any interest in Punk music, the Situationists, art, Chaos, just give it a read! It is the most interesting book that I have ever read!
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Title: The Society of the Spectacle by Guy Debord, Donald Nicholson-Smith ISBN: 0942299795 Publisher: Zone Books Pub. Date: 23 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: In the Fascist Bathroom: Punk in Pop Music, 1977-1992 by Greil Marcus ISBN: 0674445775 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: March, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Mystery Train: Images of America in Rock 'N' Roll Music by Greil Marcus, Penguin Usapaper Plume ISBN: 0452278368 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: May, 1997 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung : The Work of a Legendary Critic: Rock'N'Roll as Literature and Literature as Rock'N'Roll by Lester Bangs ISBN: 0679720456 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 12 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: The Dustbin of History by Greil Marcus ISBN: 0674218582 Publisher: Harvard Univ Pr Pub. Date: April, 1997 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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