Perfect wave : more essays on art and democracy /
When Dave Hickey was twelve, he rode the surfer's dream, the perfect wave. And, like so many things in life we long for, it didn't quite turn out, he shot the pier and dashed himself against the rocks of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Fortunately, for Hickey and...
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Chicago :
University of Chicago Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Baby breakers
- Cool on cool : William Claxton's world
- "Goodbye to love"
- Wonderful shoes
- A world like Santa Barbara
- It's morning in Nevada : on the campaign trail in post-Bush America
- My silk road
- The last mouseketeer
- After the prom
- Firecrackers : Terry Castle celebrates her independence
- ¡Una lesbiana enamorada! Sunsan Sontag
- His Mickey Mouse ways
- Mitchum gets out of jail
- The real Michelangelo
- Reading Ruskin writing
- Palladio's song
- Morris Lapidus : life as we know it
- Art fairies
- Little victories.