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PJ Harvey is "punk-blues" - I heard this description or saw it in some literature associated with her gigs here recently - and I think it is a sound characterization of her work. Siousxe-Soux's 1980's FACE cover and spread are definitive examples of how the punk movement influenced media and commercial art - whenever I see modern commercial spreads I always think back to those FACE spreads and how almost everything afterwards tried to emulate them. In many ways they were works of art in their own right. As to their impact and the impact of punk culture in general - I guess the obvious response is to say that mainstream art was relatively unaffected. Warhol had been there and done that with the Velvet Underground. Lou Reed (who was a key part of the Velvet Underground) was proto-punk. It may be the case that one can point to Basquiat in the art world - but I wouldn't - since I think that Basquiat was not punk, he was a man of his time but clearly from the New York school of contemporary art, in some sense inevitable - influenced more by Robert Rauschenberg and Willem de Kooning than John Rotten. The Sex Pistols were not inevitable from my point of view - they took me by suprise, at least :-) The Sex Pistols got their 15 minutes - but it is Siouxsie and Budgie that became an immortal force for the generation and continue today to be as fresh and innovative as they ever were. The first edition of The Creatures in the early 1990 was a stunning example of the reall driving force of innovation in Punk. Few compare. With respect, Steven rara boom wrote:
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