Out of print for fifty years, Jeff Nuttall's legendary exploration of
radical 1960s art, music, and protest movements. "Bomb Culture is an
abscess that lances itself. An extreme book, unreasonable but not
irrational.
Abrasive, contemptuous, attitudinizing, ignorant and
yet brilliant." -Dennis Potter
Out of print for fifty years, Jeff
Nuttall's Bomb Culture has achieved legendary status as a powerful,
informative, and spirited exploration of 1960s alternative society and
counterculture. Nuttall's confessional account of the period
investigates the sources of its radical art, music, and protest
movements as well as the beliefs, anxieties, and conceits of its key
agitators, including his own. Nuttall argued that a tangible psychic
dread of nuclear holocaust pervaded both high and low cultures,
determining their attitude and content, much as the horrors of World War
I had nourished the tactics and aesthetics of Dadaism.
Accompanying the original text is a new foreword by author Iain
Sinclair, who was closely acquainted with Jeff Nuttall and participated
in the turbulent underground culture described in Bomb Culture. This
anniversary edition is rounded out with an afterword by writer Maria
Fusco and a contextual introduction by the book's editors which includes
photographs and images of Nuttall's distinctive artwork as well as
further archival materials.
Bomb Culture : 50th Anniversary Edition - Jeff Nuttall
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