Air Guitar

Dave Hickey

Rock-n-rolling critical theory from the winner of the "Genius" Award, MacArthur Fellow 2001-2006, Dave Hickey. "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. ... [details]

The Invisible Dragon : Four Essays on Beauty

[First Edition, First Printing]

Dave Hickey

Compendium of essays on beauty in visual art by Dave Hickey. Illustrated in black-and-white. [details]

The New Now Sounds of Today : Songpoems by Twenty-One contemporary Artists

Rev. and Mrs Ethan Acres, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Sharon Ellis, Judy Fishkin, Tamara Fites, Doug Harvey, Robert Heinecken, Steven Hull, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Dave Muller, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Stephen Prina, Joe Scanlan, Jim Shaw, Gary Simmons, Alexis Smith, Rubén Ortiz, Jeffrey Vallance, Pae White

Audio cd. "The New Now Sounds of Today! is a CD compilation of songpoems written by contemporary visual artists. They composed the lyrics, and specified the musical genre and vocal style in which they wanted to hear them performed. ... [details]