Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy

by Dave Hickey

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963726455
• ISBN13: 9780963726452
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Art Issues Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"