Dan Graham

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As admired for his writing as for his work in art, photography and architecture, Dan Graham was one of the first contemporary artists to embrace Punk, Postpunk and No Wave, becoming a figurehead for those movements, and an early supporter of (and friend to) Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth among many others. "Rock/Music Writings" collects 13 of Graham's most influential writings, on bands ranging from The Kinks to Bow Wow Wow, first published in art journals such as "Real Life, " "Open Letter" and "ZG" between 1968 and 1988, and in the now rare volume "Rock My Religion." It includes such landmark essays as "Punk as Propaganda, " which explicates the self-packaging and media critique of The Ramones, Devo, the Sex Pistols, the Desperate Bicycles and others, "Rock My Religion, " in which Graham traces themes of ecstatic reverie in Rock performance (with a focus on Patti Smith), through a beautiful composite of quotation, commentary and photography, and "New Wave Rock and the Feminine, " which discusses the onstage personae of Lydia Lunch, Debbie Harry and Siouxsie Sioux, and the gender politics of all-female groups such as The Slits, The Raincoats, Bush Tetras and others. Throughout "Rock/Music Writings, " Graham's appraisals are clear-eyed, sophisticated and poetically constructed, a genre of their own within artists' writings.