"Malcolm McLaren didn't invent Punk. All he did was envisage it, design it, clothe it, publicize it, and sell it."
1988 companion catalogue to a SoHo-era New Museum exhibition enshrining the heroic age of the scandal-seeking, part-Situationist/part-shyster cultural cannibal who claimed to be the order brains behind the phenomenon of punk. With a purview spanning McLaren's activities from video to music, fashion to publicity, theater to photography, graphics to theory; 430 Kings Road boutiques Let It Rock, SEX, and Seditionaries to Svengali'd acts the Sex Pistols, Adam and the Ants, Bow Wow Wow (and his own Duck Rock/Deep In Vogue-era self), essays by the likes of Jon Savage and Dan Graham anchor this clean MIT Press presentation of blue monochrome imagery dyed the classic Lego spaceship cyan of Marchbank's "Bowiepix."
Absolutely essential.
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Product code: Impresario: Malcolm order McLaren and the British New Wave (1988)