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02302aam a2200253Ii 4500 001 7293FE2C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48 003 SILO 005 20180515010114 008 171024s2017 ilu a 000 0 eng d 020 $a 0226333132 020 $a 9780226333137 035 $a (OCoLC)1007325563 040 $a JAI $b eng $e rda $c JAI $d NGP $d YDX $d SILO 050 14 $a E169.Z82 $b H534 2017 082 04 $a 306.0973 $2 23 100 1 $a Hickey, Dave, $d 1940- $e author. 245 10 $a Perfect wave : $b more essays on art and democracy / $c Dave Hickey. 264 1 $a Chicago : $b University of Chicago Press, $c 2017. 300 $a 207 pages ; $c 24 cm 520 $a 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 iconoclasts, a trusted, even cherished no-nonsense voice commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of art and culture. Perfect Wave brings together essays on a wide range of subjects from throughout Hickey's career, displaying his usual breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes art work, or not, and why we care. With Hickey as our guide, we travel to Disneyland and Vegas, London and Venice. We discover the genius of Karen Carpenter and Waylon Jennings, learn why Robert Mitchum matters more than Jimmy Stewart, and see how the stillness of Antonioni speaks to us today. Never slow to judge--or to surprise us in doing so--Hickey powerfully relates his wincing disappointment in the later career of his early hero Susan Sontag, and shows us the appeal to our commonality that we've been missing in Norman Rockwell. With each essay, the doing is as important as what's done; the pleasure of reading Dave Hickey lies nearly as much in spending time in his company as in being surprised to find yourself agreeing with his conclusions. -- amazon.com 650 0 $a Arts, American $y 20th century. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231020014949.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7293FE2C580511E8A8F83C5097128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search