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(0)Dave Hickey
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"If this book of shocking intelligence and moral hope is read widely and above all well, word for word, it will help the world." -Peter Schjeldahl
An expanded edition of Hickey's controversial and exquisitely written apologia for beauty-championed by artists, reviled by art critics, and as powerful as ever 30 years on
The 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon's four essays on beauty and commingles them with newly discovered...
2) Air Guitar
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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...
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"When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream: the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out----he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and for us, he survived, and continues to battle, decades into a career as one of America's foremost critical iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense...