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Zusatztext "Hartley gently advances his "Advanced Genius Theory" with rigor! enthusiasm! and a game sense of (re-)discovery. Eschewing the snide critical distance that many fans take for granted! Hartley gives the artist in question the benefit of the doubt."-- Publishers Weekly Informationen zum Autor Jason Hartley with a Foreword by Chuck Klosterman Klappentext "The Advanced Genius Theory" is a celebration of the least-celebrated work bythe most-celebrated minds in pop culture. Zusammenfassung Let the debate begin. .. The Advanced Genius Theory, hatched by Jason Hartley and Britt Bergman over pizza, began as a means to explain why icons such as Lou Reed, David Bowie, and Sting seem to go from artistic brilliance in their early careers to "losing it" as they grow older. The Theory proposes that they don’t actually lose it, but rather, their work simply advances beyond our comprehension. The ramifications and departures of this argument are limitless, and so are the examples worth considering, such as George Lucas’s Jar Jar Binks, Stanley Kubrick’s fascination with coffee commercials, and the last few decades of Paul McCartney’s career. With equal doses of humor and philosophy, theorist Jason Hartley examines music, literature, sports, politics, and the very meaning of taste, presenting an entirely new way to appreciate the pop culture we love . . . and sometimes think we hate. The Advanced Genius Theory is a manifesto that takes on the least understood work by the most celebrated figures of our time.
