One of America's leading semioticians, Marshall Blonsky has travelled around the world to explore the many faces of popular culture and shed a scathing light on the familiar icons of our time. From TV anchors, film directors and designers to politicians, models and mobsters, the taste-makers of the '90s reveal the coming shape of the world, and Blonsky aptly analyzes these telling figures. 30 halftones.
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One of America's leading semioticians, Marshall Blonsky has travelled around the world to explore the many faces of popular culture and shed a scathing light on the familiar icons of our time. From TV anchors, film directors and designers to politicians, models and mobsters, the taste-makers of the '90s reveal the coming shape of the world, and Blonsky aptly analyzes these telling figures. 30 halftones.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Hardcover 1992 edition. Text, boards and dust jacket in near fine condition. Binding firm. Pages unmarked and clean. (517 pages)
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Good in Very Good dust jacket. 0195050622. Exlibrary with usual library markings. Front free endpaper removed. Repaired hinge. Clear plastic laminated to DJ.; 517 pages.
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Very good in good dust jacket. Introduction by Umberto Eco. Book is in lovely shape, with clean, unmarked pages and square spine. Dust jacket has some chips and fading to the spine. Semiotician Blonsky serves up a buffet of early-1990s celebrities sans fard, analyzing encounters with Giorgio Armani, Costa-Gavras, Stephen King, Peter Greenaway, Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Donald Trump, and Merv Griffin (who later claimed, 'He tricked me, seduced me'). Shamelessly garish jacket on this one, with a slab-serif and lipstick-traces cover design by Charles Kreloff (who also co-designed the iconic SIlence=Death poster) and copy describing Blonsky's subjects as 'a hidden order a cultural power structure as important as the economic one....They are creating a United States of Capitalism, an archipelago of privilege in a sea of misery. ' 517 pp.
