The 23 essays (or "love songs") that make up the now classic volume?Air Guitar?trawl a "vast, invisible underground empire" of pleasure, through record stores, honky-tonks, art galleries, jazz clubs, cocktail lounges, surf shops and hot-rod stores, as restlessly on the move as the America they depict.?Air Guitarpioneered a kind of plain-talking in cultural criticism, willingly subjective and always candid and direct. A valuable reading tool for art lovers, neophytes, students and teachers alike, Hickey's book has galvanized a generation of art lovers, with new takes on Norman Rockwell, Robert Mapplethorpe, Stan Brakhage, Andy Warhol and Perry Mason.

Dave Hickey?(born 1939) is one of today's most revered and widely read art writers. He has written for?Rolling Stone,?Art News,?Art in America,?Artforum?and?Vanity Fair?among many others.