{"product_id":"vile-days-the-village-voice-art-columns-1985-1988-9781635900378","title":"Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns, 1985-1988","description":"\u003cb\u003eGary Indiana's collected columns of art criticism from the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/i\u003e, documenting, from the front lines, the 1980s New York art scene.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1985, the \u003ci\u003eVillage Voice \u003c\/i\u003eoffered me a job as senior art critic. This made my life easier and lousy at the same time. I now had to actually enter all those galleries instead of peeking in the windows. At times, the only tangible perk was having the chump for a fifth of vodka whenever twenty more phonies had flattered my ass off in the course of a working week.\u003cbr\u003e--from \u003ci\u003eVile Days\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom March 1985 through June 1988 in The Village Voice, Gary Indiana reimagined the weekly art column. Thirty years later, Vile Days brings together for the first time all of those vivid dispatches, too long stuck in archival limbo, so that the fire of Indiana's observations can burn again. In the midst of Reaganism, the grim toll of AIDS, and the frequent jingoism of postmodern theory, Indiana found a way to be the moment's Baudelaire. He turned the art review into a chronicle of life under siege.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a critic, Indiana combines his novelistic and theatrical gifts with a startling political acumen to assess art and the unruly environments that give it context. No one was better positioned to elucidate the work of key artists at crucial junctures of their early careers, from Sherrie Levine and Richard Prince to Jeff Koons and Cindy Sherman, among others. But Indiana also remained alert to the aesthetic consequence of sumo wrestling, flower shows, public art, corporate galleries, and furniture design. Edited and prefaced by Bruce Hainley, \u003ci\u003eVile Days\u003c\/i\u003e provides an opportunity to track Indiana's emergence as one of the most prescient writers of his generation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGary Indiana is a novelist, playwright, critic, essayist, filmmaker, and artist. Hailed by the \u003ci\u003eGuardian\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the most important chroniclers of the modern psyche,\" and by the \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e as \"one of the most woefully underappreciated writers of the last 30 years,\" he published a memoir, \u003ci\u003eI Can Give You Anything But Love\u003c\/i\u003e, in 2015. He is also the author of \u003ci\u003eThree Month Fever: The Andrew Cunanan Story\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eResentment: A Comedy\u003c\/i\u003e (both published by Semiotex(e)). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBruce Hainley is the author of \u003ci\u003eUnder the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant's Volte-Face\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eArt \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/i\u003e, both published by Semiotext(e). The editor of \u003ci\u003eCommie Pinko Guy\u003c\/i\u003e, he wrote, with John Waters, \u003ci\u003eArt--A Sex Book\u003c\/i\u003e. He cochairs the Graduate Art program at ArtCenter College of Design and is a contributing editor at \u003ci\u003eArtforum\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901411954962,"sku":"9781635900378","price":21.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9d23290b-c8ec-4052-9eff-e0c6d74b419b.jpg?v=1738425233","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/vile-days-the-village-voice-art-columns-1985-1988-9781635900378","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}