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David Byrne Rare Book Your Action World Large Collectible 1999
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Subject
- Art & Photography
- Vintage
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780811826235
- Book Title
- Your Action World : Winners Are Losers with a New Attitude
- Item Length
- 14 in
- Publisher
- Chronicle Books
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.2 in
- Genre
- Photography, Social Science
- Topic
- General, Popular Culture
- Item Width
- 11 in
- Item Weight
- 43 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 128 Pages
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Product Information
In his latest book, writer, photographer, musician, and former Talking Heads frontman David Byrne has created an extraordinary document and critique of the times we live in. Your Action World parodies the "inspirational" promotional materialsincluding books, tapes, and corporate advertising - with which we are inundated daily. Byrne's impulse is to fight back, "to stem the tide of images and bullying texts that assault all of us, by building dikes and dams of my own images and texts. To understand the enemy I must become one with the enemy, I must be of one mind with the enemy. I must infect myself in order to be immunized." An intelligent, quirky document from one of our most innovative artistswith a cool debossed PVC cover and 4-color sticker Your Action World will be the cult hit of the season.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Chronicle Books
ISBN-10
0811826236
ISBN-13
9780811826235
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1161725
Product Key Features
Book Title
Your Action World : Winners Are Losers with a New Attitude
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
General, Popular Culture
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Photography, Social Science
Number of Pages
128 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
14 in
Item Height
0.2 in
Item Width
11 in
Item Weight
43 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Tr654.B764 1999
Grade from
Eighth Grade
Grade to
College Graduate Student
Reviews
< What is the doll smiling about anyway? Cool, suggestive, strange, Your Action World: Winners are Losers with a New Attitude satirizes those odious "personal power" manuals and every other variety of get-ahead, improve-yourself tract with deadpan accuracy. As was often the case with his lyrics for the Talking Heads, David Byrne's images are ironic on the surface, disconcerting in their lurking emotional undertones. Deceptively packaged, this book presents itself as one of those finds beloved of historians--the untouched trunk in the attic full of journals, letters, and souvenirs. It is, in fact, a work of the imagination, pretending to cover th4e memories of six generations of women on an Indiana homestead. Here's the concept: Marianne, a French aristocrat, marries pioneer Joshua Metcalfe in 1835 and happily departs for the Indiana wilderness to chop wood, draw water, tend chickens, clean, and cook. She also sets the scene for a family Christmas whose traditions will continue to the present. Another tradition: an end-of-year journal summing up annual events and picked up by succeeding generations, usually daughters-in-law of different ethnic background--German, Irish, English, Swedish--who can add cultural variations to the Christmas celebrations and reflect in their annual summations the progress of civilization at the farm: indoor plumbing, electricity, automobiles, computers. Beautifully published, with each woman's entries in a different handwriting and authentic-looking photographs and memorabilia reproduced, here's a charming reconstruction of the flow of history as it affects one particular family. -- -, < What is the doll smiling about anyway? Cool, suggestive, strange, Your Action World: Winners are Losers with a New Attitude satirizes those odious "personal power" manuals and every other variety of get-ahead, improve-yourself tract with deadpan accuracy. As was often the case with his lyrics for the Talking Heads, David Byrne's images are ironic on the surface, disconcerting in their lurking emotional undertones., < What is the doll smiling about anyway?Cool, suggestive, strange, Your Action World: Winners are Losers with a New Attitude satirizes those odious "personal power" manuals and every other variety of get-ahead, improve-yourself tract with deadpan accuracy. As was often the case with his lyrics for the Talking Heads, David Byrne's images are ironic on the surface, disconcerting in their lurking emotional undertones.
Copyright Date
1999
Lccn
99-039937
Dewey Decimal
779/.092
Dewey Edition
21
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