{"title":"J Hoberman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJ. Hoberman\u003c\/strong\u003e offers insightful explorations into the intersections of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, blending sharp criticism with engaging storytelling. His works invite readers to reconsider familiar subjects with fresh perspectives, often delving into the subtexts that shape creative expression.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom cinematic analyses to reflections on nature and society, Hoberman's writing combines erudition with accessibility. Expect thoughtful essays that challenge conventional narratives and illuminate the cultural forces at play in everyday life.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"everything-is-now-by-j-hoberman-9781804290866","title":"Everything Is Now","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eComparable to Paris in the 1920s, 1960s New York City was a cauldron of avant-garde ferment and artistic innovation. Boundaries were transgressed and new forms created. Drawing on interviews, memoirs, and the alternative press, \u003ci\u003eEverything Is Now\u003c\/i\u003e chronicles this collective drama as it was played out in coffeehouses, bars, lofts, storefront theatres and ultimately the streets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe principals are penniless filmmakers, jazz musicians, performing poets, as well as less classifiable and hyphenate artists. Most were outsiders. They include Albert Ayler, Amiri Baraka, Shirley Clarke, Jackie Curtis, Bob Dylan, Allen Ginsberg, Yayoi Kusama, Boris Lurie, Jonas Mekas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Barbara Rubin, Ed Sanders, Carolee Schneeman, Jack Smith, Sun Ra, Andy Warhol and many more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSome were associated with specific movements (Avant Rock, Destruction Art, Fluxus, Free Jazz, Guerrilla Theatre, Happenings, Mimeographed Zines, Pop Art, Protest-Folk, Ridiculous Theatre, Stand-Up Poetry, Underground Comix and Underground Movies). But there were also movements of one. Their art, rooted in the detritus and excitement of urban life, largely free of established institutional support, was taboo-breaking and confrontational. Often and to a degree unimaginable today, artists conflicted with the law.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBy the mid '60s, these subcultures were cross-pollinating and largely self-sufficient, coalesced into an entire counterculture that changed the city, the country, and the world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for J. Hoberman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n“\u003ci\u003eNobody in America writes as well about culture and film as J. Hoberman.\u003c\/i\u003e” —Peter Biskind\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eJ. Hoberman is simply the best historian of that hallucinatory decade when politics imitated celluloid and movies invaded reality. Cultural history doesn’t get any better.\u003c\/i\u003e” —Mike Davis\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePraise for J. Hoberman's \u003ci\u003eThe Dream Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n“\u003ci\u003eOne of the most vital cultural histories I’ve ever read. Hoberman’s deceptively easygoing yet deliriously compacted prose threads history through movie lore through McLuhanesque media criticism. . . . An extraordinary publishing event.\u003c\/i\u003e” —David Edelstein, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e“\u003ci\u003eSo invigorating that I had to ration myself to a chapter a week.\u003c\/i\u003e” —John Patterson, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849063485676,"sku":"9781804290866","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/10922963482830.jpg?v=1759015357"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/j-hoberman.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}