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基本信息·出版社：Forge Books
·页码：304 页
·出版日期：2000年10月
·ISBN：0312873913
·International Standard Book Number：0312873913
·条形码：9780312873912
·EAN：9780312873912
·版本：1st
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
内容简介 The book that will make you think about the 20th Century.
This book lists and discusses the "top 40" artistic events of the 20th century, using a quirky and personal list created by Paul Williams, which is illuminated by forty short essays discussing his choices. That alone would suffice. But in addition, Williams has created an entertaining, readable book-length work on personal and subjective responses to art.
Everybody loves top-40 lists: Will it have your own secret favorites on it? Or will there be some stuff you never heard of? Or hate? Bob Dylan? Sure, but what by Dylan? Every list provokes delight an danger and, if it is a good one, illumination and surprise. Paul Williams's lists mixes high art and popular culture, and is sure to leave no one who reads it unmoved. But a list only takes one page--and the rest of this book is Williams's thoughts on how everyday people connect with art and performance, subjects on which Williams is brilliant, insightful, and entertaining. This is a good and serious book that is fun to read.
媒体推荐 "Williams has a warm, relaxed, chatty style and a roving, inquiring mind that lends both conviction and interest to his writings." --
New York Times Book Review"The best writer around whose subject is rock and roll." --
Rolling Stone"A significant writer...His essays are very close to thought, they are thought, not thoughts but the thinking process itself. Williams obviously loves music, people, words, playing with thoughts, shifting gears, exclaiming, emoting, shouting, contemplating, jiving, thinking, writing." --
Los Angeles Free Press"A perceptive eye, a sensitive ear." --
San Francisco Examiner"An excellent writer who can apply high art rigor to pop art subject and get the fit exactly right." --
MOJO 专业书评 From Publishers WeeklyRock journalists are known for building their careers on "best of" and "worst of" listsDshaky critical structures that fit nicely in magazine columns and readers' shrinking attention spans. Thankfully, Paul Williams (Outlaw Blues; Das Energi), founder of rock journalism in the 1960s and of the seminal Crawdaddy magazine, adds some substance and spontaneity to the much-loved and loathed form. A self-described "tease," his breezy top-40 list is not a buyer's guide at all, but "a catalogue for some kinda future (multimedia) museum show"Dhigh and low objets d'art that move Williams on a deeply personal and unpretentious level. He opens enthusiastically with The Beatles' little-known "Things We Said Today," not because it's his all-time-favorite Fab Four tune or a shoo-in for the century's best but because he responds to it on a highly emotional level: "Art," he observes, "exists not so much in the moment when it is created as in the moment when it is received." Classic albums and songs account for about a dozen entries, but Williams also riffs like a young, ardor-spreading college professor on novels (James Joyce's Ulysses), short stories (Theodore Sturgeon's "Mr. Costello, Hero"), poems (Allen Ginsberg's "Howl"), paintings (Pablo Picasso's "Girl Before a Mirror") and films (Bob Dylan's Renaldo & Clara), often cross-referencing seemingly disparate works. Reading each rambling, chatty entry in its entirety is challenging, because Williams compels readers to start brainstorming their own lists and revisiting the various forms of art that have struck a vital nerve in them most deeply. It is Williams's goal to motivate his readers to pause and reflect, and he achieves it. Though he is the father of rock journalism, Williams's name alone will not pique the attention of music geeks the world over. But the historical context in which he places his subjects will appeal to those interested in pop culture. (Oct.)
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