experienced in your college years. It was destined, in other words,
to achieve cult status.
off and end his exhaustive, but always clear-headed, cross-epochal
trek with the Sex Pistols--and make it all cohere--is but one
indication of how fully he meshes the academy and the gutter.
work, vibrant with the energy of the bizarre happenings it maps
out.
A book about the twilight zone of art and revolution...[that]
displays an intellectual confidence, or nerve, that more than
convinces the reader to follow its unmarked trails.
"Lipstick Traces..".is a highly subjective account of rebellious
gestures that recur from decade to decade, often in remarkably
similar incarnations. Marcus doesn't belabor the division between
high and low--he just ignores it, fluidly shifting from (sometimes
obscure) source to source. Dada leads to punk leads to Police
Academy, and Elvis movies prompt analyses of the Left Bank. Natch!
That Marcus can kick off and end his exhaustive, but always
clear-headed, cross-epochal trek with the Sex Pistols--and make it
all cohere--is but one indication of how fully he meshes the
academy and the gutter. -- Katherine Dieckmann "Voice Literary
Supplement"
"Lipstick Traces" has the energy of its obsessions, and it snares
you in the manner of those intense, questing and often stoned
sessions of intellectual debate you may have experienced in your
college years. It was destined, in other words, to achieve cult
status. -- Ben Brantley "New York Times" (05/11/2001)
A cultural history of society's anarchic fringe.
Greil Marcus's absorbing new study...dips in and out of the history
of the Great Refusal, all the way from the medieval Lollards and
Brethren of the Free Spirit to the Dadaists, the French
Situationists, the Children of the May 1968 uprising in France and
British punk rockers. "Lipstick Traces," however, is no sedate
academic record of libertarian revolt but a bold blending of
anecdote, personal confession and cultural analysis, cutting
backward and forward from Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols to the
Surrealists, from Alexander Trocchi of the 1950's avant-garde group
know as Lettrist International to George Grosz, from the
Anabaptists in the 16th century to Daniel Cohn-Bendit, Danny the
Red of the French student rebellion...ÝMarcus's¨ book is
impressively adept at bringing alive some of the dramatic moments
of the history it charts...A coruscatingly original piece of work,
vibrant with the energy of the bizarre happenings it maps out. --
Terry Eagleton "New York Times Book Review"
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