Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967

Chicago and New Haven, CT: Museum of Contemporary Art; Yale University Press, 2007. Pictorial boards, 287 pages, illustrations (some colour); 33 cm. Firm binding, clean inside copy. A fine copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "The dynamic relationship between rock music and visual art crosses continents, generations, and cultures. Beginning with Andy Warhol s involvement with The Velvet Underground in 1967, artists have maintained a strong connection to rock. Artists such as Slater Bradley, Mike Kelley, and Raymond Pettibon have created album covers and music videos for rock bands, while rock musicians such as Bryan Ferry, John Lennon, and Peter Townsend have emerged from art schools, and punk and new wave bands such as Talking Heads and Sonic Youth have shared the same social and artistic milieu as artists including Robert Longo and Richard Prince. Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 looks at the intimate and inspired relationship between the visual arts and rock-and-roll culture, charting their intersection through works of art, album covers, music videos, and other materials. Organized regionally by cultural centers including London, New York, Los Angeles, and Cologne, the essays examine rock and roll s style, celebrity, and identity politics in art; the experience, energy, and sense of devotion rock music inspires; and the dual role that many individuals play in both the sonic and visual realms. Presenting work that defies a more literal interpretation of the theme and instead suggests the style, energy, and attitude that has come to be associated with rock and roll, this fascinating volume is essential for admirers of contemporary art and culture. / Dominic Molon is the Pamela Alper Associate Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. He is coauthor of Wolfgang Tillmans (Yale)." -Publisher. CONTENTS: Experimental jet set: the New York scene, by Dominic Molon; No New York: a personal account of the downtown scene, late '70s, by early 80's (to the best of my recollection), by Bob Nickas; CBGB as a physical space, by Richard Hell; Made with the highest British attention to the wrong detail: the UK, by Dominic Molon; Ono, Eno, Arto: nonmusicians and the emergence of concept rock, by Simon Reynolds; Punk as propaganda, by Dan Graham; Europe endless: art and rock on the continent, by Dominic Molon; Intensity, negation, plain language: Wilde Maler, Punk, and theory in Germany in the '80s, by Diedrich Diederichsen; This ain't no picnic: Los Angeles and the west coast, by Dominic Molon; Playing the Strip, by Jan Tumlir; Strange fruit: rock apocrypha, by the Destroy All Monsters Collective, by Mike Kelley; Home of the brave: the broader United States, by Dominic Molon; Sentences on AC/DC, by Anthony Elms; Everything is possible: art, rock and roll, and the global perspective, by Dominic Molon, by A timeline, by Joe Madura and Dominic Molon.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine. Folio. Collectible.