Wreckers of Civilisation: the Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Simon Ford

ISBN 10: 1901033600 / ISBN 13: 9781901033601

Verlag: Black Dog, 1999

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Minor wear to cover, most evident at outer edge & corners, where the lamination has just started to peel. Outer edge of page-block darkened & foxed. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 1406

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Titel: Wreckers of Civilisation: the Story of COUM ...

Verlag: Black Dog

Erscheinungsdatum: 1999

Einband: Softcover

Zustand: Good

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Inhaltsangabe:

La historia completa de la performance art Group coum transmisiones y la música pioneros vibran gristle industrial.

Reseña del editor:

"These people are the wreckers of civilisation", exclaimed the conservative Member of Parliment Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians - Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fani Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter. What "these people" had done to deserve such an epithet, and what they were about to do, is the subject of this book. From the forword by Jon Savage: Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which despite volumes of print remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side - the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.