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Title: Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey ISBN: 0-9637264-5-5 Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers Pub. Date: September, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.08 (13 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: uh, now what
Comment: I'm ready- couldn't wait. Finished a book by Leo Marks who was codemaker for SOE during wwii which was very interesting and surprisingly compelling- even when he described the basics of codes and betrayals. But it tired me out in alot of ways. So Hickey seemed a good way to go: clear and noncant according to reputation. Plus I read an interview Hickey gave to a colorado newspaper where he was spot on even if his stevedoreness was a little droll coming from a man obvious bored with small pieties. Started it last night and I'm already wavering. My initial enthusiasm is slightly dampened by his repeated use of the word "quotidian" and his p'haps too obvious placement of himself as heavy meta dude who hangs with grass in Mexico and in the next breath is able for instance claim that Norman Rockwell is, in fact, a great democratic artist with impressive technical skills. He claims too that every artist he knows admires Rockwell. I always thought it was schlock- I could be wrong- (I think Rockwell leads to Tarantino) but what worries me is that Hickey seems willing to take a perverse position for the pleasure of taking a perverse position. Well that's OK but he isn't Panofsky. He's acrobatic and synthetic- but afterwards like any dance by Arthur Murray you wonder what you have experienced and when.
The book cover is terrible, almost the worst I have ever seen which again suggests a willful postmodern banality offered w/o irony which is the hippest position possible. Says Sean Puffy Combs, Puff Daddy, P Daddy, P Diddy: "its all good." He's a genius too.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Book I Read All Year
Comment: A chain of family and friends recommended this book to me--first my niece, then a younger brother, then an older brother, an age range of more than 25 years. I'd like to have a box of the books by my front door so I could give one to everyone who comes and goes, including the Fedex man, the mailman, friends and door-to-door salesmen. It is wonderful, intoxicating, and hilarious. Sometimes too wordy, but when it is, it is a little like Moe slapping Curly and then poking him in the eyes. Hickey always brings you back to earth after zooming around the clouds. The book should be required reading for academics and artists alike--you'll never think about what you do in the same way after reading this book, which in some ways might be characterized as a love song to life. Utterly delightful. I drove my wife crazy raving about it, now I have to get her a copy, since mine is all marked up with exclamation points.
Rating: 5
Summary: From the Sublime to the Ridiculous ... & Back
Comment: I love Dave Hickey. And not just cause he's some rich culture nut [with] on a MacArthur Genius Award. I loved him before he won it - when I first read this book - before some sleaze stole my copy & I had to save up to buy another one.
Regardless of whether you are, at any point, in agreement or disagreement with Dave (I call him "Dave"), his prose always elicits an admiration for its tingling velocity. Veering from the microscopic details of his tawdry life to his grand generalizations to the pompous rejection of Cezanne and ridiculous idolization of Chet Baker, Dave is a crash-test culture dummy.
Bravo for courage. He even re-invented "Beauty" (without whispering).
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Title: Stardumb by John deFazio, Dave Hickey ISBN: 1891273019 Publisher: Artspace Books Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe ISBN: 1581150377 Publisher: Allworth Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: Prior Convictions: Stories from the Sixties (Southwest Life and Letters) by Dave Hickey ISBN: 0870742868 Publisher: Southern Methodist Univ Pr Pub. Date: June, 1989 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Deep Design: Nine Little Art Histories by Libby Lumpkin ISBN: 0963726463 Publisher: Art Issues Press Pub. Date: December, 1999 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Uncontrollable Beauty: Toward a New Aesthetics by Bill Beckley, David Shapiro ISBN: 1581151969 Publisher: Allworth Press Pub. Date: January, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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