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  • Air Guitar

    Essays on Art and Democracy

    par 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. Air Guitar pioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • 25 Women

    Essays on Their Art

    par Dave Hickey ...
    Newsweek calls him "exhilarating and deeply engaging." Time Out New York calls him "smart, provocative, and a great writer." Critic Peter Schjeldahl, meanwhile, simply calls him "My hero." There's no one in the art world quite like Dave Hickey—and a new book of his writing is an event.25 Women will not disappoint. The book collects Hickey's best and most important writing about female artists from ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Perfect Wave

    More Essays on Art and Democracy

    par Dave Hickey ...
    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 ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $23.99 CAD Maintenant $19.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • The Invisible Dragon

    Essays on Beauty and Other Matters: 30th Anniversary Edition

    par Dave Hickey ...
    “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 SchjeldahlAn 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 onThe 30th anniversary cloth edition brings back into print Dragon’s four essays on ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

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  • About Writing

    7 Essays, 4 Letters, 5 Interviews

    par Samuel R. Delany ...
    From the four-time Nebula Award–winning novelist and literary critic, essential reading for the creative writer.Award-winning novelist Samuel R. Delany has written a book for creative writers to place alongside E. M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel and Lajos Egri's Art of Dramatic Writing. Taking up specifics (When do flashbacks work, and when should you avoid them? How do you make characters both ... En savoir plus

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  • Reality Hunger

    par David Shields ...
    A landmark book, “brilliant, thoughtful” (The Atlantic) and “raw and gorgeous” (LA Times), that fast-forwards the discussion of the central artistic issues of our time, from the bestselling author of The Thing About Life Is That One Day You'll Be Dead.Who owns ideas? How clear is the distinction between fiction and nonfiction? Has the velocity of digital culture rendered traditional modes obsolete ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Better Living Through Criticism

    How to Think About Art, Pleasure, Beauty, and Truth

    par A. O. Scott ...
    The New York Times film critic shows why we need criticism now more than everFew could explain, let alone seek out, a career in criticism. Yet what A.O. Scott shows in Better Living Through Criticism is that we are, in fact, all critics: because critical thinking informs almost every aspect of artistic creation, of civil action, of interpersonal life. With penetrating insight and warm humor, Scott ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $17.99 CAD Maintenant $15.99 CAD

  • Cruising Utopia

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    par Jose Esteban Munoz ...
    The LGBT agenda for too long has been dominated by pragmatic issues like same-sex marriage and gays in the military. It has been stifled by this myopic focus on the present, which is short-sighted and assimilationist.Cruising Utopia seeks to break the present stagnancy by cruising ahead. Drawing on the work of Ernst Bloch, José Esteban Muñoz recalls the queer past for guidance in presaging its ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD

  • Theatre

    par David Mamet ...
    If theatre were a religion, explains David Mamet in his opening chapter, "many of the observations and suggestions in this book might be heretical." As always, Mamet delivers on his promise: in Theatre, the acclaimed author of Glengarry Glen Ross and Speed the Plow calls for nothing less than the death of the director and the end of acting theory. For Mamet, either actors are good or they are non ... En savoir plus

    $17.59 CAD

  • Cruising Utopia, 10th Anniversary Edition

    The Then and There of Queer Futurity

    par José Esteban Muñoz ...
    Collections Livre 50 - Sexual Cultures
    A 10th anniversary edition of this field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholarsCruising Utopia arrived in 2009 to insist that queerness must be reimagined as a futurity-bound phenomenon, an insistence on the potentiality of another world that would crack open the pragmatic present. Part manifesto, part love-letter to the past and the future, José Esteban Muñoz ... En savoir plus

    $24.99 CAD

  • Andy Warhol and the Can that Sold the World

    par Gary Indiana ...
    In the summer of 1962, Andy Warhol unveiled 32 Soup Cans in his first solo exhibition at the Ferus Gallery in Los Angeles -- and sent the art world reeling. The responses ran from incredulity to outrage; the poet Taylor Mead described the exhibition as "a brilliant slap in the face to America." The exhibition put Warhol on the map -- and transformed American culture forever. Almost single-handedly ... En savoir plus

    $16.99 CAD

  • The Importance of Being Funny

    Why We Need More Jokes in Our Lives

    par Al Gini ...
    When E. B. White said “analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog; few people are interested and the frog dies,” he hadn’t seen Al Gini’s hilarious, incisive, and informative take on jokes, joke-telling, and the jokers who tell jokes. For Gini, humor is more than just foolish fun: it serves as a safety valve for dealing with reality that gives us the courage to endure that which we cannot ... En savoir plus

    $21.99 CAD