Wreckers of Civilisation: The Story of COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle

Simon Ford

London

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Black Dog Publishing

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1999

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First Edition.

23cm x 17cm. [256] pages, black and white illustrations. Pictorial wrappers.

The story of the performance art collective and band featuring Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Spydeee Gasmantell, and others. “To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. COUM Transmissions and Throbbing Gristle mark the furthest reach of that impulse: even more so than Punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side – the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep.” (from forward)

Minor creasing and shelf wear to wrappers. Minor foxing to edges. Minor soiling and tanning. Minor cracking to lower hinge, still intact. Good Condition.

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