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The visuals are superb. Record sleeves, vintage paperbacks and kooky ephemera like printed instructions for the Surfer's Stomp dance liven up the pages . . . a nostalgic treasure-trove. -- Variety Even if you've never hung ten, you'll practically feel the surf and sand while leafing through the colorful pages of surf-inspired graphics, record covers, fashion, film posters and more. -- New York Post An ambitious survey of the surf aesthetic's influence on American culture, from Moondoggie, the Gidge, and Pet Sounds to burlesque and the Mollusk crew's new wave return to surf's boho design roots. -- Austin Chronicle It's all here: Dick Dale, Mickey Dora, Michael Dormer, Bruce Brown and, of course, surf movies/music/art/clothing and on and on. The essays are well-done and informative, but the real joy is the endless summer of art, photos and illustrations. -- San Diego Union Tribune A seductive reminder of how cool surf culture was, the kind of book one could spend hours with, poring over the words and images. -- Orange County Register Both coffee table book and textbook, with a stunning collection of rare relics and photographs. Sixties pop obsessives will be rewarded with more than enough connections and recommendations to make the book pay for itself . . . With plenty of history and eye candy, Pop Surf Culture wins. -- Boston's Weekly Dig

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Brian Chidester is a staff editor for Yahoo.com and the co-editor of Dumb Angel #4: All Summer Long. He has been a segment producer for documentaries by the BBC, PBS, Showtime, and the Carl Wilson Foundation. Chidester lives in New York City. Domenic Priore is the author of Riot on Sunset Strip: Rock 'n' Roll's Last Stand in Hollywood, Beatsville (with Martin McIntosh), and Smile: The Story of Brian Wilson's Lost Masterpiece. He has written documentaries for Paramount Pictures Inc. and American Movie Classics (AMC). Priore lives in Los Angeles. Kathy Zuckerman is the real life inspiration for the fictional character of Franzie Gidget Lawrence from the 1957 novel Gidget, written by her father, Frederick Kohner. She was named No. 7 in Surfer Magazine 's 25 Most Influential People in Surfing. Zuckerman lives in Los Angeles. Billy Al Bengston is an American artist and sculptor whose work is found in many public and private collections, including the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), LACMA, MOCA (Los Angeles), MOMA (New York), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), the Corcoran Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), and the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). Less famously, he is/was the original Moondoggie. He lives in Los Angeles.

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