Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher

Author: Rebecca Binns

Publisher: Manchester University Press

Published: 2022-11-29

Total Pages: 191

ISBN-13: 1526147904

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As one of the people who defined punk’s protest art in the 1970s and 1980s, Gee Vaucher (b. 1945) deserves to be much better-known. She produced confrontational album covers for the legendary anarchist band Crass and later went on to do the same for Northern indie legends the Charlatans, among others. More recently, her work was recognised the day after Donald Trump's 2016 election victory, when the front page of the Daily Mirror ran her 1989 painting Oh America, which shows the Statue of Liberty, head in hands. This is the first book to critically assess an extensive range of Vaucher’s work. It examines her unique position connecting avant-garde art movements, counterculture, punk and even contemporary street art. While Vaucher rejects all ‘isms’, her work offers a unique take on the history of feminist art.


Gee Vaucher

Gee Vaucher

Author: Stevphen Shukaitis

Publisher: Minor Compositions

Published: 2017-04-15

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570273155

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Gee Vaucher is an internationally renowned political artist, known for her 'radical creativity', montages, and iconic record sleeve artwork for the famous anarchist-pacifist band Crass. Vaucher has always seen her work as a tool for social change, using surrealist styles and methods, and a DIY aesthetic to create powerful images exploring political and personal issues. This catalogue will be the first in-depth publication examining the vast range of her work including painting, collage, video, performance art, design, and installation works.


The Story of Crass

The Story of Crass

Author: George Berger

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13:

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In-depth interviews with the main movers in the punk rock movement--Crass members Penny Rimbaud, Gee Vaucher, and Steve Ignorant--detail the face of the revolution founded by these radical thinkers and artists. When punk ruled the waves, Crass waived the rules by putting out their own records, films, and magazines and setting up a series of situationist pranks that were dutifully covered by the world's press. Not just another iconoclastic band, Crass was a musical, social, and political phenomenon: commune dwellers that were rarely photographed and remained contemptuous of conventional pop stardom. As detailed in this history, their members explored and finally exhausted the possibilities of punk-led anarchy. This definitive biography of the band not only gives backstage access to their lives, philosophies, and the movement that followed, but also to never-before-seen photographs and rare dialogues.


Punk

Punk

Author: William Gibson

Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 354

ISBN-13: 0847836622

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Illustrated narrative of the evolution, realization, and legacy of the punk aesthetic - from the marginal cultural catalysts behind the movement through the musicians and artists who fourished in its prime to the traces still visible in popular culture today


Realizing the Impossible

Realizing the Impossible

Author: Josh MacPhee

Publisher: AK Press

Published: 2007-01-01

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781904859321

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Looks at the history of the depiction of anti-authoritarian social movements in art.


Last Week's Apocalypse

Last Week's Apocalypse

Author: Douglas Lain

Publisher: Night Shade

Published: 2006-01-01

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 9781597800341

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"It’s legitimate SF, and it’s ‘mainstream,’ and it’s metafiction: I don’t know anyone else doing quite what Lain is doing; fascinating work, moving, strikingly honest, powerful.”—Rich Horton, Locus Magazine Gore Vidal meets Philip K. Dick in this collection of “lit-fabulist” stories. Douglas Lain’s work has been attracting high profile attention throughout the genre, and this collection features some of his finest and most controversial fiction. These stories present electric messiahs, identity constructs, the Beatles, and even nuclear Armageddon as comic foils for Lain’s everyman characters. Here is an America where the packets of Sea Monkeys that arrive in the mail contain secret messages and the girl next door can breathe underwater. With Last Week’s Apocalypse, Douglas Lain arrives with a punch line and a warning.


The Graphic Art of the Underground

The Graphic Art of the Underground

Author: Ian Lowey

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2014-09-25

Total Pages: 256

ISBN-13: 1472573552

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The Graphic Art of the Underground: A Countercultural History takes the reader on a dazzling journey through the visual art and design of alternative and youth cultures from the 1950s to the present day. Ian Lowey and Suzy Prince ’s compelling account draws upon the work of an array of artistic figures – many of whose lives have proved as colourful as their work– such as Ed ‘Big Daddy’ Roth, Kenny ‘Von Dutch’ Howard, Robert Williams, Robert Crumb, Martin Sharp, Jamie Reid, Linder Sterling, Gee Vaucher, Winston Smith, Barney Bubbles, Mark Ryden, Shag, Camille Rose Garcia, Marion Peck and Pete Fowler among numerous others.


Post-Punk Then and Now

Post-Punk Then and Now

Author: Sue Clayton

Publisher: Watkins Media Limited

Published: 2016-09-13

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 191092427X

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What were the conditions of possibility for art and music-making before the era of neoliberal capitalism? What role did punk play in turning artists to experiment with popular music in the late 1970s and early 1980s? And why does the art and music of these times seem so newly pertinent to our political present, despite the seeming remoteness of its historical moment? Focusing upon the production of post-punk art, film, music, and publishing, this book offers new perspectives on an overlooked period of cultural activity, and probes the lessons that might be learnt from history for artists and musicians working under 21st century conditions of austerity. Contemporary reflections by those who shaped avant-garde and contestatory culture in the UK, US, Brazil and Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. Alongside these are contributions by contemporary artists, curators and scholars that provide critical perspectives on post-punk then, and its generative relation to the aesthetics and politics of cultural production today.


Punk

Punk

Author: Paul Gangloff

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9789072076571

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