Punk: No One Is Innocent

Punk: No One Is Innocent
by Thomas Mießgang, Wolfgang Müller, Glenn O’Brien and Jon Savage
(Verlag fur moderne Kunst Nurnberg), Paperback, 250 pages, $60

Published in conjunction with last year’s exhibition at Kunsthalle Wien (read a review of the exhibition here), Punk: No One Is Innocent focuses on the 1970s punk scene in New York, London, and Berlin and its influence on the art scene.

This book joins the ranks of countless other art exhibitions / expensive catalogs organized in the last twenty years that discuss the exact same subject yet adds insult to injury by using a Sex Pistols song title as its name. Oh, you’re so fucking clever.

Enough already.

But for those with the fortitude to bear another book on this topic, Punk: No One Is Innocent collects interesting yet arguably completely irrelevant (unless you are an art historian) imagery and text from the era, along from the following:

LONDON: Leigh Bowery, Derek Jarman, Linder, Malcolm McLaren, Genesis P-Orridge, Jamie Reid, Johnny Rozsa, Jon Savage, Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Willats, Cerith Wyn Evans, Bill Woodrow
NEW YORK: Vito Acconci, Lynda Benglis, Richard Hambleton, Richard Kern, Robert Longo, Ann Magnuson, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mark Morrisroe, Tony Oursler, Christy Rupp, Alan Vega, Arturo Vega, David Wojnarowicz

BERLIN: Elvira Bach, Jörg Buttgereit, Einstürzende Neubauten, Luciano Castelli, endart, Die tödliche Doris,Manfred Jelinski, Walter Gramming, Hormel & Bühler, Malaria!/Mania D, Martin Kippenberger, Maye & Rendschmidt, Notorische Reflexe, Salomé, Wolkenstein & Markgraf, Yana Yo