Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #120256 in Books
• Published on: 1991-05-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Home's work is as good as it gets.
I have been reading around , and studying the post Futurist/Dada avant garde scene for nearly 25 years, and Home's work is as good as it gets.

Along with the source texts from Debord, Vaneigem etc -- this book will set the benchmark for the area.

This is no idle commentary on Debord's work, neither is it a book of adulation, or simplistic analysis -- Home has a sharp, perceptive mind, that ADDS SIGNIFICANTLY to an understanding of Dada, Futurism, Situationists, the Lettrists, and even to an understanding of medieval mystic heretics, Rimbaud and Baudelaire's place in the lineage. And, he is not afraid to be scathingly , perceptively critical either -- see his pertinent dismissal of certain aspects of Tzara, Adorno and Debord's contradictory theory and snobbery.

Along with SOCIETY OF THE SPECTACLE, DADA DRUMMER, FLIGHT OUT OF TIME,REVOLUTION OF EVERY DAY LIFE, Richter's DADA ART AND ANTI ART,Flynt's BLUEPRINT FOR A HIGHER CIVILIZATION and MARINETTI'S FUTURIST MANIFESTOES -- Home's work is *THE* definitive analytic, critical text.

Home's work is essential reading for anyone at all interested in 20th Century art, and by association, the field of knowledge the key Post Modernists (Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard, Baudrillard) went on to exploit.

As far as art critique and total subversion of political dialectic goes -- Home is where it's at -- most of the others are fakers.

Home is the real thing. Ask Peter Ackroyd, Iain Sinclair, and Henry Flynt.

A neat history...
This is a neat little history of Avant Garde art movements and their cross over into politcal ideoloigies. Some fascinating anecdotes, especially the account of the poverty/hunger march in Chicago that ended at a plush resteraunt with Anarchists unvailing a banner declaring 'Beware your future executioners!'.
I was expecting this to be a heavy read but it's a very enjoyable nslice of history that has up to this point been fairly ignored by the mainstream academia.
It's a slender volume, but don't be fooled into thinking its light weight.