Author: David Scott Bell
Publisher: Routledge Kegan & Paul
Keywords: eighties, labour
Number of Pages: 168
Published: 1980-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0709904436
ISBN-13: 9780709904434
Author: Professor John Ehrman
Publisher: Yale University Press
Keywords: reagan, america, eighties
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2006-06-13
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0300115822
ISBN-13: 9780300115826
During the Reagan years, Americans witnessed an extraordinary array of changes, from major technological advances to sweeping revisions of the tax code to the deregulation of major industries and the advent of the culture wars. America emerged from the decade completely transformed: political and social arrangements derived from post–World War II liberalism had given way to the highly competitive, fast-changing, technology-driven society we know today.In The Eighties, John Ehrman tracks this transformation in the context of Ronald Reagan’s policies and convictions and examines the broader
Author: Linda M. Montano
Publisher: University of California Press
Keywords: eighties, talking, artists, performance
Number of Pages: 420
Published: 2000-10-16
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 0520210220
ISBN-13: 9780520210226
Performance artist Linda Montano, curious about the influence childhood experience has on adult work, invited other performance artists to consider how early events associated with sex, food, money/fame, or death/ritual resurfaced in their later work. The result is an original and compelling talking performance that documents the production of art in an important and often misunderstood community. Among the more than 100 artists Montano interviewed from 1979 to 1989 were John Cage, Suzanne Lacy, Faith Ringgold, Dick Higgins, Annie Sprinkle, Allan Kaprow, Meredith Monk, Eric Bogosian, Adria
Author: Thomas A. Christie
Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing
Keywords: cinema, eighties, hughes, john
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2009-04-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1861712642
ISBN-13: 9781861712646
JOHN HUGHES AND EIGHTIES CINEMA John Hughes is the acclaimed writer and director of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty In Pink and many other classic movies of the 1980s. This book is the first full-length analysis of all of John Hughes’s films throughout the 1980s; not only the features that he directed, but also those for which he provided the screenplay. By analysing these pictures and discussing their social and cultural significance in the wider context of the decade, Hughes’s importance as a filmmaker will be considered, and his prominent
Author: Norman Snider
Publisher: Exile Editions
Keywords: times, eighties, roaring
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 2008-04-01
List price: $26.95
ISBN-10: 1550960938
ISBN-13: 9781550960938
Author: Riva Castleman
Publisher: Museum of Modern Art
Keywords: eighties, innovations, printmakers, master, seven
Number of Pages: 119
Published: 1991-08
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0870701908
ISBN-13: 9780870701900
Author: Charles Neal
Publisher: SAF Publishing Ltd
Keywords: underground, eighties, confessions, delay, tape
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1987-12-31
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0946719020
ISBN-13: 9780946719020
Contributors to Tape Delay include: Marc Almond - Dave Ball - Cabaret Voltaire - Nick Cave - Chris & Cosey - Coil - Einsturzende Neubauten - The Fall - Diamanda Galas - Genesis P. Orridge - Michael Gira - The Hafler Trio - Matt Johnson (The The) - Laibach - Lydia Lunch - New Order - Psychic TV - Boyd Rice - Henry Rollins - Clint Ruin - Sonic Youth - Stevo - Mark Stewart - Swans - Test Dept. - David Tibet (Current 93) In 1984 author Charles Neal set about interviewing the major protagonists working in sound, word and image. Concentrating on the most challenging and confrontational, he deliberat
