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When Dave Hickey was 12, he rode the surfer's wish: the perfect influx. And, like so many things in life we miss, it didn't quite come out - he shot the pier and dashed himself contrary to the stones of Sunset Cliffs in Ocean Beach, which just about killed him. Thankfully, for Hickey and for all of us, he survived, and remains to battle, decades into a career as you of America's primary critical iconoclasts, a reliable, even cherished no-nonsense tone commenting on the all-too-often nonsensical worlds of artwork and culture. Perfect Wave includes essays on an array of things from throughout Hickey's career, displaying his usual breadth of interest and powerful insight into what makes art work, or not, and just why we worry. With Hickey as our guide, we happen to be Disneyland and Vegas, London and Venice. We discover the genius of Karen Carpenter and Waylon Jennings, learn why Robert Mitchum issues more than Jimmy Stewart, and observe how the stillness of Antonioni speaks to us today. Never decrease to guage - or to wonder us in doing this - Hickey powerfully relates his wincing disappointment in the later career of his early on hero Susan Sontag, and shows us the appeal to your commonality that we have been lacking in Norman Rockwell. With each article, the doing is as important as what's done; the pleasure of listening to Dave Hickey's words lays nearly all the in spending time in his company just as being stunned to find yourself agreeing along with his conclusions. Bookended by previously unpublished personal essays that offer a new glimpse into Hickey's own life - like the aforementioned slam-bang conclusion to his more youthful surfing career - Perfect Wave is not really a perfect publication. But from the damn good one, and a welcome addition to the Hickey cannon. Cover copyright Nice Ice Cream Picture taking.
