The Art of Punk: Posters + Flyers + Fanzines + Record Sleeves

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Celebrating a wide range of punk design in vinyl cover art, posters, flyers, fanzines, and other ephemera, The Art of Punk highlights the movement primarily within graphic design and print, while also considering its impact on wider popular culture. Punk was based on immediacy - an often-inspired amateurism and underground, close-knit communities that burned brightly but were not intended to extend beyond the gig, the event, the scene, the moment. Punk songs by such legendary bands as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Damned, the New York Dolls, the Germs, and the Clash tended to be short, fast, and aggressive, and the oft-repeated credo "If it can't be said in three minutes, it's not worth saying" was adopted as standard practice, extending in turn to an entire ethos for the whole subculture. The book is arranged chronologically, and by genre, and features more than 900 visual examples both by uncredited artists and internationally renowned designers and design groups, alongside interviews with, and commentary by, many of the artists concerned. AUTHOR: Russ Bestley is a principal lecturer at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. He coauthored and designed Up against the Wall: International Poster Design and Experimental Layout. Bestley's PhD thesis in graphic design was titled Hitsville UK: Punk Rock and Graphic Design in the Faraway Towns, 1976-84. SELLING POINTS: . The definitive chronicle on the graphic art of punk style, from period concert posters and flyers to fanzines and record sleeves, and much more . Over 900 images featuring such legendary bands as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Damned, the New York Dolls, and the Clash . Also traces the punk underground scenes throughout Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, South America, the former USSR, Scandinavia, China, and Africa 900 colour and b/w photographs

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Author and designer Russ BestleyisReader in Graphic Design & Subcultures at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. He is lead editor of the journalPunk & Post-Punk,serieseditor and art director for theGlobal Punkbook series (Intellect) and a leading member of the international Punk Scholars Network. His research archive can be accessed atwww.hitsvilleuk.com Alex Ogg is an author and journalist whose books include The Hip Hop Years (accompanying the BAFTA-nominated TV series on which he acted as consultant), No More Heroes, and Independence Days. He has contributed to various publications, including The Times, Vive Le Rock, French art magazine Etapes International, Classic Rock, and award-winning website The Quietus. He is the former editor of Spiral Scratchand currently coeditor of the esteemed academic journal Punk & Post-Punk. Vivien Goldman, a Londoner, has lived in Paris and now resides in New York City. Her can-do attitude and outernational insights have been on display in journalism, books, radio, television, university teaching, multimedia lecturing, museums, the recording studio, and the stage, ever since the punky reggae mid-1970s. A longtime adjunct professor at NYUs Clive Davis Institute of Recording Music, Tisch, her lecturing life has taken her to London, New York, Los Angeles, Munich, Bilbao, Lagos, and beyond. Goldmans archive is collected at the Fales Library, NYU, as the Vivien Goldman Punk & Reggae Collection. Her vintage journalism can be found at rocksbackpages.com. Alex Ogg is an author and journalist whose books include The Hip Hop Years (accompanying the BAFTA-nominated TV series on which he acted as consultant), No More Heroes, and Independence Days. He has contributed to various publications, including The Times, Vive Le Rock, French art magazine Etapes International, Classic Rock, and award-winning website The Quietus. He is the former editor of Spiral Scratchand currently coeditor of the esteemed academic journal Punk & Post-Punk.