Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet Underground

Loaded: The Life (and Afterlife) of The Velvet UndergroundContemporary pop music, art, fashion, style and the avant garde was never the same after The Velvet Underground. They were the first major American rock group with a mixed gender line up; they never smiled in photographs, wore sunglasses indoors, and in the process invented the archetype. They were avant garde nihilists, writing about drug abuse, prostitution, paranoia, and sado masochistic sex at a time when the rest of the world was singing about

Five introductory chapters analyze Caravaggio’s artistic career from his early struggle to make a living

Drake reaches for a perfectly artful reflection on loss and loneliness and succeeds wonderfully

A trailblazing and inspiring collection of essays on art

Marvin Gaye turned to more intimate matters with Let's Get It On

Siri Hustvedt is also highly regarded as a writer of non-fiction whose insights are drawn from her broad knowledge in the arts

making use of more than a hundred authentic locations

Now in paperback

New interview with Italian journalist Antonello Sarno

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and etchings - even personal photographs and illustrated private letters

his post-war adventures in Paris and Greece

her own land…yet somehow