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Air Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy (Paperback)

by Dave Hickey (Author)
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Editorial Reviews

Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Robert Christgau
Finally obliged to theorize his impolite tastes, judgments and ideas, Hickey lays his prejudices a little barer than altogether becomes them. Even caught in that old trap, however, he's as good as it gets, starting with his prose. Although his diction is often highfalutin (he was doing a doctoral thesis about Foucault and Derrida way back in 1967), his rhythms aren't, and he's more than fluent in colloquial English--I mean, the guy can flat-out write.

The Nation, Margaret Juhae Lee
Dave Hickey's twenty-three "love songs," which make up Air Guitar, fly off the page to offer the reader a vista beyond the wasteland. In Hickey's "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure--record stores, honky-tonks, hot-rod shops, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and the like--joy abounds and truth speaks.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 208 pages
  • Publisher: Art Issues Press; 1st edition (August 2, 1997)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0963726455
  • ISBN-13: 978-0963726452
  • Product Dimensions: 9 x 6 x 0.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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