Dust Bunnies: Dave Hickey's Online Aphorisms

By Dave Hickey

Book Overview

Dust Bunnies gathers the fragments Dave Hickey scattered across social media between June 2014 and March 2015. During that time, he posted nearly 3,000 comments, sparking over 700,000 words in response from admirers, skeptics, and the merely curious. Wasted Words, the companion volume, presents the full, unedited transcript of these sprawling debates. Dust Bunnies distills Hickey's voice to its sharpest edge-aphorisms lifted from the fray and preserved as compact sparks.

Unlike Wasted Words, grounded in context and exchange, Dust Bunnies emphasizes the timeless bite of Hickey's style. Always provocative and often outrageous, his pronouncements thrive in this concise form. In a sly twist, the critic once known for long, incendiary riffs proves equally lethal in the jab-like idiom of social media, firing cultural shrapnel back at the digital natives who thought they owned the medium.

Conceived and Produced by LG Williams and The Estate of LG Williams(TM)
Edited by Julia Friedman

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Dave Hickey is a distinguished American art and cultural critic and the author of The Invisible Dragon: Four Essays on Beauty (1993), Air Guitar: Essays on Art and Democracy (1997), and Pirates and Farmers (2014). His most recent book, 25 Women: Essays on Their Art, is just out from the University of Chicago Press. Hickey was a Professor of English at the University of Nevada Las Vegas, and a Distinguished Professor of Criticism for the MFA Program in the Department of Art & Art History at the University of New Mexico.

LG Williams is a Los Angeles-based artist and recently the Endowed University Instructor at The Academy of Art University; Robert Hughes Distinguished Visual Artist-In-Residence at The Lodge in Hollywood, CA; and the Emmy Hennings Distinguished Professor at D(D).DDDD University. LG has exhibited in various national and international venues, including The Internet Pavilion of La Biennale Di Venezia, and has appeared in Artforum, The New York Times, Times Literary Supplement, The Guardian, Japan Times, Los Angeles Times, La Stampa, Bookforum, Purple Diary, Mousse Magazine, The Brooklyn Rail among others.

Julia Friedman is a Russian-born art historian, writer, and curator.

PCP Press is an independent publisher of avant-garde books and insurgent authors. Founded in 1990 in San Francisco at a time when transgressive and sometimes esoteric international art books had a difficult time making their way into the wider American marketplace, over the past three decades PCP has grown into a consistent publisher of books, special editions and rare publications from an array of the world's most respected authors and cultural institutions - including Raymond Pettibon, Dave Hickey, Wayne Thiebaud, Bryan Reynolds, David Hawkes, Shepard Fairey, LG Williams, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, and Luscerne Kunstpanorama.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 152327266X
• ISBN13: 9781523272662
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.0" x 8.0"