Lipstick Traces

This is an "alternative history" of the 20th century. Beginning and ending with the Sex Pistols, This book traces a common impulse back through a series of radical artists and social theorists - the Situationists, the Lettrist Internation, Dada - to the mystical anarchists and millenarian heretics of medieval Europe. Greil Marcus is the author of "Mystery Train - Images of America in Rock 'n' Roll Music".