A Newcastle Dunciad 1966-2008:
Recollections of a Musical and Artistic Avant Garde
Plus
Bryan Ferry and the Newcastle Arts Scene
By Dave and Stuart Wise
B.P.C WiseEbooks Series No.4. Published 24 Sept. 2024 in paperback and ebook,
In 1966, King Mob founders Stuart and David Wise were students at Newcastle School of Art, publishing the avant garde magazine Icteric. A Newcastle Dunciad, the latest in the WisEbook Series, recalls the ideas and practices of the Tyneside radicals and how they were 'recuperated'' by the developers for the post-industrial 'regeneration' of Tyneside. This volume also has a Situationist critique of their art school contemporary, Bryan Ferry,
“The upsurge of the late 1960s must remain the bench mark for all future revolt until its example is superseded. It was a time when a spirit of passionate enquiry meant specialisms were montaged together; sparring and altering the paradigms of each as almost everything was redefined. It was a moment where we dared to hope for a revolutionary future. For those who refused to join the seemingly irresistible flow it seemed like a time of madness though in essence it was an ambience of all-encompassing creativity. The following gives something of a brief outline of some of this ‘mad’ creativity in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and how it was snatched from our grasp and turned into its opposite. “
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Other Wise books published by BPC.
King Mob: The Negation and Transcendence of Art: Malevich, Schwitters, Hirst, Banksy, Mayakovsky, Situationists, Tatlin, Fluxus, Black Mask (WiseEbooks Series No. 3) – 21 May 2024
Dialectical Butterflies: Ecocide, Extinction Rebellion, Greenwash and Rewilding the Commons - an Illustrated Dérive (WiseEbooks No. 2) - 12 March 2024)
Lost Texts Around King Mob by Dave and Stuart Wise with contributions from Ronald Hunt, John Barker, Fred Vermorel, Chris Gray and Phil Meyler (BPC WisEbooks Series No. 1) - Jan. 2024).
BPC Website thebarbarismofpureculture.co.uk
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