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Groovy Bob

Author : Harriet Vyner
Publisher : Heni Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780993010392
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Groovy Bob written by Harriet Vyner and published by Heni Publishers. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner's Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished London with the artists he introduced: Andy Warhol, Peter Blake, Claes Oldenburg, Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. Told through the voices of those who knew him best--Paul McCartney, Richard Hamilton, Mick Jagger, Bridget Riley, Keith Richards, Kenneth Anger, Malcolm McLaren and Vyner herself--Groovy Bob is a brilliant biography and a searing portrait of the most exhilarating period in post-war British social history. This edition features a new afterword by the author and colour plates including works from the major exhibition A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense: A Portrait of Robert Fraser, curated by Vyner and Brian Clarke at Pace London, 2015.

Rollaresque

Author : Simon Goddard
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473502217
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Rollaresque written by Simon Goddard and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-08-06 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London 1962. Five young hooligans have formed a band and are on a collision course with the austere and intolerant values of post-war Britain. From their beginning in a scummy flat off the Kings Road to the notorious Redlands scandal, this is the anarchic rollercoaster ride of the Stones’ first five years. We follow our heroes in a rags-to-riches romp of sex, scandal, mischief and uproarious behaviour as they challenge the establishment, invent the archetype of the rebellious, parent-scaring rock star lothario and, eventually, receive their comeuppance from the powers that be. Presented with the audacious wit and bawdy humour of a vintage novel, complete with Dickensian illustrations, Rollaresque celebrates the young Stones in the grand English literary tradition of lovable rogues. This is the music biography reinvented as a ripping yarn.

Brian Jones

Author : Paul Trynka
Publisher : Plume
ISBN 13 : 0147516455
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (475 download)

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Download or read book Brian Jones written by Paul Trynka and published by Plume. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in Great Britain as Sympathy of the Devil: The Birth of the Rolling Stones and the Death of Brian Jones by Bantam Press."

Robert Brownjohn

Author : Emily King
Publisher : Laurence King Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781856694643
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (946 download)

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Download or read book Robert Brownjohn written by Emily King and published by Laurence King Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Brownjohn's cult status is justly deserved. Although his career lasted less than a quarter century, he created more signature pieces than many designers who work three times as long, consistently producing work of the highest quality. Born in New Jersey in 1925, he was taught by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy at the Chicago Institute of Design (formerly the New Bauhaus) in the 1940s. He worked in New York in the 1950s and spent the 1960s at the epicentre of swinging London on the King's Road. Best known for his title sequences for the Bond films From Russia With Love (1963) and Goldfinger (1964), he produced numerous other influential pieces, and his impact on American and British design was unmistakeable. Brownjohn's death in 1970 deprived graphic design of one of its most brilliant and original minds.

Jagger

Author : Marc Spitz
Publisher : Avery
ISBN 13 : 159240734X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)

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Download or read book Jagger written by Marc Spitz and published by Avery. This book was released on 2012-09-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on firsthand recollections from rockers, filmmakers, writers, and other artists who have been transformed by Mick Jagger's work, acclaimed music journalist Spitz has created a unique examination of the Jagger legacy.

Bruce Conner

Author : Rudolf Frieling
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520290569
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Bruce Conner written by Rudolf Frieling and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2016-07-04 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is published by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on the occasion of the exhibition Bruce Conner: It's All True, co-curated by Stuart Comer, Rudolf Frieling, Gary Garrels, and Laura Hoptman, with Rachel Federman"--Colophon.

White Heat

Author : Dominic Sandbrook
Publisher : Abacus
ISBN 13 : 0349141282
Total Pages : 741 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)

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Download or read book White Heat written by Dominic Sandbrook and published by Abacus. This book was released on 2015-02-05 with total page 741 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'An active pleasure to read' Mail on Sunday Harold Wilson's famous reference to 'white heat' captured the optimistic spirit of a society in the midst of breathtaking change. From the gaudy pleasures of Swinging London to the tragic bloodshed in Northern Ireland, from the intrigues of Westminster to the drama of the World Cup, British life seemed to have taken on a dramatic new momentum. The memories, images and colourful personalities of those heady times still resonate today: mop-tops and mini-skirts, strikes and demonstrations, Carnaby Street and Kings Road, Harold Wilson and Edward Heath, Mary Quant and Jean Shrimpton, Enoch Powell and Mary Whitehouse, Marianne Faithfull and Mick Jagger. In this wonderfully rich and readable historical narrative, Dominic Sandbrook looks behind the myths of the Swinging Sixties to unearth the contradictions of a society caught between optimism and decline.

8-Dec-80

Author : Keith Elliot Greenberg
Publisher : Backbeat Books
ISBN 13 : 0879309636
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (793 download)

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Download or read book 8-Dec-80 written by Keith Elliot Greenberg and published by Backbeat Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a riveting, minute-by-minute format, a best-selling author follows the events leading to the moment when Mark David Chapman killed rock icon John Lennon in New York City, in a book that also looks at the aftermath.

Cooks' Tour

Author : Ben Ezzell
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595203418
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book Cooks' Tour written by Ben Ezzell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2001-10 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guided chefs’ tour of Thailand becomes the scene of a series of very strange events including a very bad burglar, drunken mushrooms, romance and drugs…but it’s up to the non-chef in the group, Joan Maguire, to play a very non-traditional Mrs. Marple and unravel the complexities of a cross-cultural crime and an international mystery. Mixing a fond familarity with Thailand and Thai customs together with a keen appreciation of the culinary scene, Cooks' Tour takes the reader inside the culture of a fascinating land where the customs are not merely colorful but also clues.

On the Whispering Wind

Author : Dan Allison
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595262686
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (952 download)

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Download or read book On the Whispering Wind written by Dan Allison and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-paced thriller set on Florida's Gulf Beaches, On the Whispering Wind combines sharply drawn characters, insightful narrative, and a plot with more twists and turns than a two-lane coastal highway. In All the Little Birdies, readers met taxi driver Jake Murdock. Murdock's taken a few wild rides with his sometimes bizarre passengers on Florida's steamy Gulf beaches. When Murdock's former girlfriend--cab driver Cassidy Andrews--finds a corpse in a Treasure Island condominium, and the dead man is the son of a famous televangelist, Murdock finds he's in for another wild and possibly fatal ride, On the Whispering Wind. Blending the madcap zaniness of Tim Dorsey and Carl Hiaasen with the lyrical poignancy of James W. Hall and Randy Wayne White, On the Whispering Wind is evocative Florida noir.

Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography

Author : Philip Gefter
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 163149015X
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)

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Download or read book Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography written by Philip Gefter and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-11-03 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Arts Club of Washington Marfield Prize A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Selection This "admiring and absorbing biography" (Deborah Solomon, The New York Times Book Review) charts Sam Wagstaff's incalculable influence on contemporary art, photography, and gay identity. A legendary curator, collector, and patron of the arts, Sam Wagstaff was a "figure who stood at the intersection of gay life and the art world and brought glamour and daring to both" (Andrew Solomon). Now, in Philip Gefter's groundbreaking biography, he emerges as a cultural visionary. Gefter documents the influence of the man who—although known today primarily as the mentor and lover of Robert Mapplethorpe—"almost invented the idea of photography as art" (Edmund White). Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe braids together Wagstaff's personal transformation from closeted society bachelor to a rebellious curator with a broader portrait of the tumultuous social, cultural, and sexual upheavals of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, creating a definitive portrait of a man and his era.

Summer of Love

Author : Christoph Grunenberg
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853239291
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (392 download)

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Download or read book Summer of Love written by Christoph Grunenberg and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though more than a generation has passed since the revolutionary fervor of the Summer of Love of 1967, the 1960s in many ways seem with us still. From recurring debates over the war in Vietnam to the perpetually appealing music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stone to the concern about youth drug use, the legacy of the 1960s is ubiquitous in contemporary life. The Summer of Love brings together an impressive group of historians, artists, and cultural critics to present a rich and varied interpretation of this seminal decade and its continuing influence on politics, society, and culture. The Summer of Love, which accompanies an exhibition at Tate Liverpool, pays particular attention to the wildly creative psychedelic art of the era. Perceptive essays on psychedelic comics, graphic design and typography, light shows, and film successfully rescue psychedelic art from the fog of nostalgia and unjust critical neglect. Distinguished contributors also explore the role of 1960s fashion and architecture, and they consider anew the central influence of hallucinogenic drugs on the art of the era. Running throughout the essays are the elements of epochal change—from sexual liberation to student revolutions—that still form the backdrop of our collective consciousness of the 1960s. An incisive collection of writings on all aspects of 1960s art and culture, tempered by time and critical distance, The Summer of Love will be indispensable for those who wish they had been there—or for those who were, but can't remember it.

Rise Up, Sista

Author : Kristine Simelda
Publisher : TouchPoint Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (661 download)

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Download or read book Rise Up, Sista written by Kristine Simelda and published by TouchPoint Press. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two women. Two musical vibes. One song. Set in the UK and Jamaica, Rise Up, Sista is a story about female friendship and the power of music to change individual lives and popular culture that spans over fifty years. Mercy Mae Williams, a Jamaican reggae artist, and Annabelle Sinclair, a British rocker, meet as young women in London in 1963. It’s a heady era—cultural revolution and fresh musical genres explode on both sides of the Atlantic.

The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year

Author : William McDonald
Publisher : Workman Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0761175067
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (611 download)

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Download or read book The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands and 143 Other Fascinating People Who Died This Past Year written by William McDonald and published by Workman Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Returning for its second year but reimagined in a new impulse format, with a new title, new cover, new mission, and new sensibility, here is The Socialite Who Killed a Nazi with Her Bare Hands, a pithier, quirkier collection of the 164 best page-turning obituaries from The New York Times. Written by top journalists, each story is a gem of a bio, a full life in miniature. There’s the famous: Steve Jobs, including the story of how he was reunited with a sister he never knew, the novelist Mona Simpson. And the almost famous: Ruth Stone, a poet who worked in relative obscurity until she won the National Book Award at the age of 87. The behind-the-scenes, like Arch West, inventor of the Dorito, who pulled America’s snacks out of the 1950s doldrums and created a $5-billion-a-year product, and the out-there, like self-styled anarchist and maverick artist (and real estate mogul and museum director) Bob Cassilly, who died at the controls of his bulldozer while building “Cementland” in St. Louis. And because of the chronological organization of the book, the stories, one next to the other, make for an addictive-as-salted-peanuts book: Mark O. Hatfield, the celebrated antiwar Republican senator from Oregon, next to Nancy Wake of the title, the impoverished New Zealander who grew up to become a high-society hostess and heroine of the French Resistance—the socialite who did, indeed, kill a Nazi with her bare hands.

The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form

Author : Yi Chen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1003815979
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book The Aesthetics of Image and Cultural Form written by Yi Chen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-04-24 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering an alternative mode of visual cultural analysis to the prevalent discursive model, this book proposes to situate analysis of Image within ‘formal’ analyses of culture experience. Specifically, the discussion draws on theories of affective aesthetics with the view of addressing the sensual form of culture (i.e. ‘cultural form’). Therefore, the volume puts forward a mode of formalist analysis in visual cultural research which takes purchase on the idea of ‘cultural form’. A continuum of formalist attention between Image analysis (visual media, industrial design) and probing of ‘cultural forms’ establishes the theoretical underpinning of the book. These concepts are expounded through a case study which looks at formal experimentations and debates arising from 1960s avant-garde artistic practices in London.

Act Naturally

Author : Steve Matteo
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493059025
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Act Naturally written by Steve Matteo and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Beatles produced five films during their time together: A Hard Day’s Night, Help!, Magical Mystery Tour, Yellow Submarine, and Let It Be. Some were cinematic successes, and some were not, but—along with subsequent reissues, bonus material, and Peter Jackson’s The Beatles: Get Back, a documentary companion to Let It Be—they comprise an endlessly fascinating document of key phases in the group’s career. In this comprehensive deep-dive into the band’s movies, author and longtime music journalist Steve Matteo follows the origins, filming, and often frenzied fan reception of projects from the 1964 premiere of A Hard Day’s Night through 1970’s Let It Be to the release of Get Back in 2022. Matteo explores the production process, original theatrical film releases, subsequent VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray releases, and bonus materials, along with the US and UK soundtracks. In addition to copious anecdotes and behind-the-scenes details, he also places these films in their larger context, a period of unprecedented artistic and commercial innovation in British and world cinema. Filled with stories and insights that will satisfy collectors, buffs, and casual fans alike, this is the definitive account of an underappreciated part of the Beatles’ creative output.

How to be Cool

Author : Thomas W Hodgkinson
Publisher : Icon Books
ISBN 13 : 1785781634
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book How to be Cool written by Thomas W Hodgkinson and published by Icon Books. This book was released on 2016-11-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cool can’t be taught. That’s the received wisdom, yet this wry, entertaining compendium by Thomas W. Hodgkinson (author of the indispensable How to Sound Cultured) shows that, on the contrary, anyone can increase their cool quotient by learning from the masters and the methods of the past. It’s never an easy journey. But to set yourself on the path to true cool, you’ll need this invaluable roadmap.