{"product_id":"the-fourth-sex","title":"The Fourth Sex","description":"\u003cp\u003eOmnivorous and indefatigable  suggestible but independent  adolescents dont want to be balanced. They love extremes of everything from fashion and art to music and the Internet. Observed and studied by experts of all kinds  their behavior monitored by psychologists  educators  and marketing executives  adolescents represent a decisive and increasingly valuable segment of the buying public. They adore and consume trendy clothes and brand-new bands; they must be cool regardless of the cost. And adults turn to them more and more for clues on how to remain forever young and hip. The Fourth Sex turns a critical  illustrated spotlight on adolescence  a territory of transition crisscrossed by the most varied creative energies. A series of iconographic materials begins in the 1960s and moves up to the present  revealing clothes  behavior patterns  novels  and visual artworks created or inspired by the transnational tribe that are teenagers. Excerpted authors include David Foster Wallace  Arata Isozaki  Philip Roth  William Golding  J.G. Ballard  Beavis \u0026amp; Butthead  Jim Carroll  Stephen King  Vladimir Nabokov  Douglas Coupland  Dick Hebdige  Bret Easton Ellis  and Dave Eggers. Represented artists include Vanessa Beecroft  Raymond Pettibon  Mike Kelley  Elizabeth Peyton  Karen Kilimnik  Charles Ray  Takashi Murakami  Larry Clark  Rineke Dijkstra  Paul McCarthy  Richard Prince  Gilbert \u0026amp; George  Gavin Turk  and Richard Billingham. And modeled fashion and lifestyle designers include Malcolm MacLaren  Paco Rabanne  Benetton  Veronique Branquinho  Comme des Gar ons  Stssy  Coca-Cola  PlayStation  Diesel  Katherine Hamnett  and David Sims. The books shifting  politically incorrect graphic style gives form and color to all the contradictions and ambiguities of an unhappy age that we never cease to remember with nostalgia and the occasional twinge of pain. Published in association with Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44984119918645,"sku":"ByrdShop_8881584042","price":903.41,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9788881584048.jpg?v=1770823944","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-fourth-sex","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}