Raiding the Icebox. Reflections on Twentieth-Century Culture.

Raiding the Icebox is a kaleidoscopic review of the avant-garde and radical subcultures of the twentieth century, and explains how the most powerful artistic statements of the era redrew the line between high and low art.
Peter Wollen explains the philosophy behind his book as follows: "Endings rewrite beginnings. Every new turning point in the history of art brings with it a retrospective process of reappraisal and redramatization, with new protagonists, new sequences, new portents." Raiding the Icebox (the title is borrowed from Andy Warhol's 1970 exhibition of art and junk from the storage vaults of the Rhode Island School of Design) is a lucid revisioning of modernism, going back to its "heroic years" and recovering those alternative developments later disavowed by high modernism ...