Lipstick Traces by Greil Marcus
This title is about a single, serpentine fact: late in 1976 a record called "Anarchy in the UK" was issued in London, an event which launched a transformation of pop music all over the world. The song distilled, in crudely poetic form, a critique of modern society once set out by a small group of Paris intellectuals. In Greil Marcus's classic book on punk, Dadaism, the situationists, medieval heretics and the Knights of the Round Table (amongst others), the greatest cultural critic of our times unravels the secret history of the 20th century.
'Lipstick Traces time travels on the wings of philosophy, history, conjecture and copious research to visit parallel movements of cultural rebellion.. they range dizzyingly from punk to Dadaism, from French situationists to Anabaptism... destined, in other words, to achieve cult status.' The New York Times 'The world's greatest living rock critic.' Charles Shaar Murray, Independent
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.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780571212880 |
| ISBN 10 | 0571212883 |
| Title | Lipstick Traces |
| Author | Greil Marcus |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| Year published | 2002-02-18 |
| Number of pages | 496 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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