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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> Born in 1967 Paul Rooney joins a generation of artists for whom the experience of pop music and popular culture (although one uses the term ‘pop’ here in its broadest sense) has been as formative to their practice as an exposure to the history of art cinema or literature. In fact this immersal in the world of pop music might be said to have had an even more profound effect on their subsequent work the experience being lived visceral and entwined with the boredoms rituals and desires of daily life. Making a quiet unofficial survey of recent art-making in the UK one can see how this relationship with the world of pop music has taken various forms in the work of vastly differing artists. The only common denominator is a loose generational grouping (a situation which might be said to echo the first generation of British pop artists who joined the Royal College of Art in the autumn of 1959); but within this generational configuration we could find at a glance George Shaw Jeremy Deller Jim Lambie David Shrigley Martin Creed and Mark Leckey amongst many others. All male all more concerned with anthropology than museology this is a grouping (as opposed to a group) of artists for whom the experience of pop music and the envi ronments of popular culture has directed their work to different strands of romanticism. Arguably pop for these artists is what nature was for Turner and Wordsworth They are compelled by pop music as a situation; as a cumulative framework for all manner of potential speculations on the nature of existence and creativity from the contortions of irony to the shades of elegy or the edge of dogma. (LL)