Wreckers of Civilisation : The Story of Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle von Simon Ford ; Genesis P-Orridge ; Cosey Fanni Tutti ; Chris Carter ; Peter Christopherson: Very Good Soft cover (1999) Signed by Author(s)

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Comprehensive history of the performance art group COUM Transmissions and the industrial music pioneers Throbbing Gristle. This copy signed by author and has small card invite to book launch at Salon 3 in the Elephant & Castle shopping centre loosely inserted. Slight shelf wear to edges, light corner crease to front free endpaper, small stain to fore-edge, previous owner's signature, couple of reading creases to spine. Photographs available on request. All books dispatched same or next working day in robust packaging.

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Titel

Wreckers of Civilisation : The Story of Coum Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Verlag

Black Dog, London

Ver�ffentlichungsdatum

1999

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1901033600

ISBN-13

9781901033601

Bindung

Soft cover

Zustand

Very Good

Signiert

Signed by Author(s)

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"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.

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"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.

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