Too Cool

Book Overview

An in-depth guide to the most out-of-sight movies, music, books, TV, characters and creations. The real rap on hundreds of items of enduring bossness, complete with product information and shopping... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312089155
• ISBN13: 9780312089153
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Length: 217 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 6.0"

Customer Reviews

Two Cool: Setting Our Pop Culture Straight in the '90's

If "The Catalog Of Cool," Gene Sculatti's collection of essays on pop culture, was an affirmation to me as an eighteen-year-old misfit, "Two Cool" drove home the point that intelligent stylistic individuality is not just a fad, but a legitimate aesthetic. "Catalog" leaves off with the new wave era. "Two Cool" continues the evolution of this aesthetic through the rest of the 'eighties and into the 'nineties. "Two Cool" also traces the evolution of the concept of "hipness" back to Absinthe-consuming nineteenth century painters and poets as being the "hipsters" of their time. I can only hope that Mr. Sculatti is planning "Tres Cool," as promised at the back of this volume. I am lying in wait with my contributions to it.