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The Art of Punk Posters + Flyers + Fanzines + Record Sleeves Russ Bestley, Alex Ogg & Zoë Howe, Foreword by Vivien Goldman ISBN: 978-0-7643-6488-4 $45.00 US | £40.99 GBP | $64.00 CAN HC • 240 pp. • 10 " x 11 " (254 x 279 mm) 900+ color & b/w images Music / Genres & Styles / Punk Music / Genres & Styles / Rock Music / Genres & Styles AVAILABLE: NOW The definitive chronicle on the graphic art of punk style! Celebrating a wide range of punk design in vinyl cover art, posters, flyers, fanzines, and other ephemera, The Art of Punk highlights the movement primarily within graphic design and print, while also considering its impact on wider popular culture. • Over 900 images featuring such legendary bands as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Damned, the New York Dolls, and the Clash • Also traces the punk underground scenes throughout Europe, Australia, Southeast Asia, South America, the former USSR, Scandinavia, China, and Africa The book is arranged chronologically, and by genre, and features more than 900 visual examples both by uncredited artists and internationally renowned designers and design groups, alongside interviews with, and commentary by, many of the artists concerned. Punk was based on immediacy—an often-inspired amateurism and underground, close-knit communities that burned brightly but were not intended to extend beyond the gig, the event, the scene, the moment. Punk songs by such legendary bands as the Sex Pistols, the Ramones, the Damned, the New York Dolls, the Germs, and the Clash tended to be short, fast, and aggressive. The oft-repeated credo “If it can’t be said in three minutes, it’s not worth saying” was adopted as standard practice and extended to the whole subculture. ISBN: 978-0-7643-6488-4 $45.00 9 780764 364884 54500 Russ Bestley is a principal lecturer at the London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. He coauthored and designed Up against the Wall: International Poster Design and Experimental Layout. Bestley’s PhD thesis in graphic design was titled “Hitsville UK: Punk Rock and Graphic Design in the Faraway Towns, 1976–84” . Vivien Goldman , is a longtime adjunct professor at NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recording Music, Tisch. Her lecturing life has taken her to London, New York, Los Angeles, Munich, Bilbao, Lagos, and beyond. Goldman’s archive is collected at the Fales Library, NYU, as the Vivien Goldman Punk & Reggae Collection. Her vintage journalism can be found at rocksbackpages.com . Alex Ogg is an author and journalist whose books include The Hip Hop Years (accompanying the BAFTA-nominated TV series on which he acted as consultant), No More Heroes , and Independence Days. He is the former editor of Spiral Scratch and currently coeditor of the esteemed academic journal Punk & Post-Punk . 14 RECENTLY RELEASED: SCHIFFER MUSIC