Product Description: The topicality of the 70s and 80s is, paradoxically, due to the fact that they belong to the past - for by now, even the 80s are far enough away that we can recognise them as a complete decade with its own interesting aesthetics. 70s Versus 80s - the title already indicates that the book is primarily intended to highlight the aesthetic break between the two decades and thus to argue for something like a fundamentally different conception dominating each period...read more