Gee Vaucher
Title | Gee Vaucher PDF eBook |
Author | Rebecca Binns |
Publisher | Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | 191 |
Release | 2022-11-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 1526147904 |
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
Title | Gee Vaucher PDF eBook |
Author | Stevphen Shukaitis |
Publisher | Minor Compositions |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2017-04-15 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781570273155 |
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.
Crass Art and Other Pre Postmodernist Monsters, 1961-1997
Title | Crass Art and Other Pre Postmodernist Monsters, 1961-1997 PDF eBook |
Author | Gee Vaucher |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Art, Modern |
ISBN | 9780946381050 |
The Story of Crass
Title | The Story of Crass PDF eBook |
Author | George Berger |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
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.
Realizing the Impossible
Title | Realizing the Impossible PDF eBook |
Author | Josh MacPhee |
Publisher | AK Press |
Total Pages | 338 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781904859321 |
Looks at the history of the depiction of anti-authoritarian social movements in art.
Post-Punk Then and Now
Title | Post-Punk Then and Now PDF eBook |
Author | Sue Clayton |
Publisher | Watkins Media Limited |
Total Pages | 340 |
Release | 2016-09-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 191092427X |
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.
Senseless Acts of Beauty
Title | Senseless Acts of Beauty PDF eBook |
Author | George McKay |
Publisher | Verso |
Total Pages | 228 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9781859849088 |
Welcome to the social and environmental devastation that is Britain in 1996. Welcome to interchangeable political parties and their chattering media jesters pulling together to make Johnny Rotten's dream come true: no future. But despite their best efforts, fear, cynicism and the National Lottery aren't the whole story. Protest hasn't disappeared during the last twenty years, and nor have solidarity and imagination. They have simply taken new forms; they have moved out and moved on. More and more people, young people especially, are making a virtue of necessity and living outside Britain's rotting institutional fabric. Travellers, tribes, ravers or squatters, direct-action protesters of every kind, DIYers. This book is the first attempt to write their history, to explore and celebrate their endlessly creative senselessness. George McKay looks back at the hippies of the sixties and punks of the seventies, and shows hot their legacies have been transformed into what he calls cultures of resistance. His journey through the undergrounds of the last two decades takes us from the Windsor Free Festival of 1972 to the Castlemorton Free Rave Megaparty exactly twenty years later, from the anarchopunk band Crass via Teepee Valley and Glastonbury to today's ever-intensifying anti-road protests, and to the widespread opposition to the Criminal Justice Act. Drawing on fanzines and free papers, record lyrics, interviews and diaries, Senseless Acts of Beauty gives a vivid, insider account of countercultures, networks and movements that until now have remained largely unrecorded. At the same time, George McKay analyses their effects, and gives his own answers to the questions they pose: what are their politics, their aspirations, their consequences? One thing is certain, he argues: if there is resistance anywhere in Britain today, then it is here, in the beat-up buses, beleaguered squats and tree-top barricades, that we should start to look for it.