A reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid-twentieth century.
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Gavin Butt offers a reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid 20th century.
Gavin Butt offers a reconsideration of queer American art culture of the mid 20th century.
After punk's arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musicians…
"After punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5 to the Mekons, Scritti Politti, and Fad Gadget, these artists-turned-musician…
"No Machos or Pop Stars presents an extensive social history of the entanglement between punk rock and art college radicalism in the Northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s and 1980s. This relationship, at times critical and other times contesting, paved the way for the punk…
Beginning from a dead-end -- Anarchy at the Poly -- Punk Bohemians -- Debating society -- Why theory? -- No machos or pop stars, please -- Electric shock -- Rehearsals for the Mutant Disco -- Epilogue: The limits of experiment-1981 and after.
"No Machos or Pop Stars presents an extensive social history of the entanglement between punk rock and art college radicalism in the Northern English city of Leeds in the 1970s and 1980s. This relationship, at times critical and other times contesting, paved the way for the punk…