Shows how pop music reflects the culture of the 20th century. It claims that the most culturally significant type in British culture is the alienated suburban dandy, nowadays the kid who feels odd, hates his comfortable, dull surroundings and yearns for the bright lights of the big cities.

England Is Mine Pop Life In Albion From

Politics & Social Sciences

Michael Bracewell

Social Sciences

HarperCollins, UK

<p>This is an anatomy of a confused decade, the 1990s - a still-warm, still-bizarre, still-confused and confusing decade. The author talks to and about a host of representative figures from the 1990s, some already forgotten, some absolutely emblematic of their times - from Hanson to Alexander McQueen, from Tracey Emin to Ulrika Jonsson, from the Spice Girls to Duran Duran. Painstakingly, sometimes painfully, he puts all the pieces together and starts to make sense of it all.</p>

The Nineties : When Surface Was Depth

Flamingo

Perfect Tense

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

Vintage

<p>A short, brilliant novel; a nameless middle-aged man; a tour of modern office life both hilarious and profound; T.S. Eliot with Groucho Marx's comic timing; a philosophical unravelling and a metaphysical search for meaning in the back of a desk drawer</p>

JONATHAN CAPE.

A story of five young people, beginning with their childhood roots in the county towns of Berkshire in the early 1970s. Later in life they come together again in London, a little older but still insulated by their class and inability to grow up.

Divine Concepts of Physical Beauty

Secker Warburg

The Conclave

Minerva

Gilbert & George: London Pictures

Arts & Photography

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Missing Margate

Fourth Estate Ltd.

Notorious for his continually subversive takes on classical dance, Michael Clark is without doubt one of the most important dancers and choreographers of our time. He has created some of contemporary dance's finest productions, often using leftfield rock music (most famously in his fantastic collaboration with The Fall, I Am Curious, Orange). Situated at the heart of the British postpunk art scene, Clark is much admired for his judicious choice of collaborators, such as designers Bodymap, artists Cerith Wyn Evans, Leigh Bowery, Charles Atlas, Peter Doig and Sarah Lucas, film director Peter Greenaway (Clark played Caliban in Prospero's Books) and bands The Fall, Laibach and Wire. This monograph, the first on this major artist, celebrates the whole of Michael Clark's career to date, from the late 70s to the present. Rich in visual and archival material, it contains new essays on Clark's work, photography by Hugo Glendinning, Richard Haughton, Nick Knight, David LaChapelle, Chris Nash and others, plus interviews with many of Clark's collaborators from the worlds of dance, art, fashion and music. Limited edition photographs are available from the publisher.Michael Clark set up his own dance company in 1984, at the age of 22. He immediately won the admiration of Rudolf Nureyev, who commissioned ballets from Clark for the repertoire at the Paris Opera. Clark has also been the subject of numerous films and documentaries, including the fictional biography Hail the New Puritan by Charles Atlas and The Late Michael Clark, directed by Sophie Fiennes.

Michael Clark

Stephanie Jordan

Suzanne Cotter

Reference

Violette Editions

A small but engaging exhibition catalog on one of Britian's great contemporary collage artists. Tabula Rasa features work made across a 32-year span elegantly uniting the central themes in the art of John Stezaker. Silkscreens on canvas from the early 1990s along with film-still collages from the 1990s and 2009 are brought together for the first time. An important overview of this master collage artist whose work centers around the notion of screens, voids and cut-outs. An essay by Michael Bracewell, 'The Space Between', looks at the connections between the 13 selected works. Includes detailed installation views from Stezaker's recent exhibition at The Approach, London.

John Stezaker: Tabula Rasa

John Stezaker

Individual Artists

Ridinghouse

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