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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

By: Dave Hickey

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Art Issues Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 210097

ISBN: 0963726455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

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 always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book--now in its eighth printing--has galvanized a generation of art lovers...
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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy

By: Dave Hickey

Price: $6.95

Publisher: Art Issues Press: August 1997

Seller ID: 241551

ISBN: 0963726455

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The Invisible Dragon: Essays on Beauty, Revised and Expanded

By: Dave Hickey

Price: $15.00

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press: March 2012

Seller ID: 94579

ISBN: 0226333191

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

The Invisible Dragon made a lot of noise for a little book When it was originally published in 1993 it was championed by artists for its forceful call for a reconsideration of beauty--and savaged by more theoretically oriented critics who dismissed the very concept of beauty as naive, igniting a debate that has shown no sign of flagging.

With this revised and expanded edition, Hickey is back to fan the flames. More manifesto than polite discussion, more call to action than criticism, The Invisible Dragon aims squarely at the hyper-institutionalism that, in Hickey's view,...
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