Shape of Things to Come
Shape of Things to Come
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Aims to untangle the story of America's covenant with itself - and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. This title presents an account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, with dives into the work of few artists who strikingly dramatize the challenge US poses to each of its citizens.
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Shape of Things to Come by Greil Marcus
In The Shape of Things to Come, Greil Marcus untangles the story of America's covenant with itself -and the idealism, horror, eloquence and violence integral to its founding narratives. In a thrilling account that moves back and forth between culture and politics, and with deep dives into the work of a few artists who strikingly dramatize the challenge America poses to each of its citizens - Herman Melville and Raymond Chandler, Philip Roth and David Lynch, Bill Pullman and Sheryl Lee, David Thomas of Pere Ubu and Allen Ginsberg - Marcus captures a story that is constantly being remade and retold, in voices at once paranoid and sardonic, inspiring and terrifying.
"'It takes a 'big' writer to do such a subject justice, and the don't come much bigger - or better - than Greil Marcus, the revered American critic and cultural commentator, whose 1975 book, Mystery Train, pretty much set the benchmark for all rock writing" Q Magazine on Like a Rolling Stone"
Greil Marcus was born in San Francisco in 1945. He is the author of Mystery Train, Invisible Republic, Lipstick Traces and Double Trouble, and the editor of Lester Bangs's Psychotic Reactions and Carburetor Dung. In 1998 he curated the exhibition '1948' at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City. Marcus writes a bi-weekly column for salon.com and a monthly column for Interview. He was described by John Rockwell in the New York Times as 'a writer of rare perception and a genuinely innovative thinker'. Greil Marcus lives in Berkeley, California.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780571221561 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571221564 |
| Title | Shape of Things to Come |
| Author | Greil Marcus |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2006-08-17 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |