Marie Arleth Skov is a Danish art historian and curator living in Berlin and the international affiliate of the Punk Scholars Network in Germany and Denmark. She works at the crossroads of art, sexuality and music, with a main historical focus on surrealism and the punk movement of the 1970s–1980s. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Claudia Skoda. Dressed to Thrill at Kulturforum, Berlin. She has previously written several articles as well as book chapters on punk x art.

'I wish this book had been available to me when I was a 16-year-old punk in 2006 who had only ever read or heard of Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me. [...] Indeed, we’re living in an exciting time for a burgeoning wealth of punk studies. The generations that follow will be offered a rich array of research, in part due to researchers like Marie Arleth Skov and Punk Art History for, what is offered in Skov’s monograph is a different view from those typically offered in mainstream punk histories.Skov’s writing is fresh and accessible – the density of her research could be easily overwhelming were it not for her engaging tone. The book exceeded my expectations, in that I assumed I was sitting down for a primer in punk – but was completely wrong. This is a highly academic monograph, written in a way that one might feel as if they’re seated with a close friend explaining a dense international network of ideas, and the artistic movements of which that network pays homage or may have in part, been bred from. Skov offers the research to her reader in delightful bite-sized, but well-written chapter sections.This book is a service to the movement and belongs among the shelves of any self-purported full-time (or, even, to quote Television Personalities, ‘part-time’) punks.'

• Acknowledgements1 Prelude1.1 What are we looking at? A punk art movement?1.2 Negations, conflicts, and swindles: The elusiveness of punk1.3 Case in point: The first Punk Art exhibition, 19781.4 Forty-five years of trying to capture the art in punk2 Art Origins in the Story of Punk2.1 The short version: From proto to post2.2 Art school vs. hard school2.3 Punk precursors: 1919, 1966, 19682.4 DIY: The DNA of punk3 Pop Multiples, Camp Affirmations3.1 Andy Warhol: "Hero of the Punks"3.2 Hedonism as attack3.3 Trash and travesty4 The Weapons of the Underdog4.1 Punk propaganda4.2 Punk poetry4.3 Crime as art, scandal as art5 Art with No Future?5.1 Originality and appropriation5.2 Modernity in extremis5.3 Avant-garde vs. rear-guard6 Children Run Riot: The Art of the Infantile6.1 Dead end kids6.2 The Life of Sid Vicious: The sad, dead boy6.3 "Infancy conforms to nobody"7 Work vs. Play7.1 Punk's homo ludens7.2 Ingenious dilletantes7.3 The Baby Wagner Lullaby, or: Brilliance blackout8 SEX8.1 Queer punks and dykes in high heels 8.2 Defiant prostitutes, porn artists & well-dressed whores 8.3 Sadism and submission8.4 Punk feminism: Vamp up!9 Pain and Presence9.1 Performances and punches 9.2 "It hurts and looks cool!": Fetish fashion9.3 Real romance?10 Dystopian with a Twist 10.1 It's the end of the world10.2 The Grand Downfall Show10.3 Broken heroes, aces of failure11 The Laws of the Lawless List of Interviews and ArchivesNotesBibliographyIndex

Marie Arleth Skov is a Danish art historian and curator living in Berlin and the international affiliate of the Punk Scholars Network in Germany and Denmark. She works at the crossroads of art, sexuality and music, with a main historical focus on surrealism and the punk movement of the 1970s–1980s. Most recently, she co-curated the exhibition Claudia Skoda. Dressed to Thrill at Kulturforum, Berlin. She has previously written several articles as well as book chapters on punk x art.

'I wish this book had been available to me when I was a 16-year-old punk in 2006 who had only ever read or heard of Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain’s Please Kill Me. [...] Indeed, we’re living in an exciting time for a burgeoning wealth of punk studies. The generations that follow will be offered a rich array of research, in part due to researchers like Marie Arleth Skov and Punk Art History for, what is offered in Skov’s monograph is a different view from those typically offered in mainstream punk histories.Skov’s writing is fresh and accessible – the density of her research could be easily overwhelming were it not for her engaging tone. The book exceeded my expectations, in that I assumed I was sitting down for a primer in punk – but was completely wrong. This is a highly academic monograph, written in a way that one might feel as if they’re seated with a close friend explaining a dense international network of ideas, and the artistic movements of which that network pays homage or may have in part, been bred from. Skov offers the research to her reader in delightful bite-sized, but well-written chapter sections.This book is a service to the movement and belongs among the shelves of any self-purported full-time (or, even, to quote Television Personalities, ‘part-time’) punks.'

• Acknowledgements1 Prelude1.1 What are we looking at? A punk art movement?1.2 Negations, conflicts, and swindles: The elusiveness of punk1.3 Case in point: The first Punk Art exhibition, 19781.4 Forty-five years of trying to capture the art in punk2 Art Origins in the Story of Punk2.1 The short version: From proto to post2.2 Art school vs. hard school2.3 Punk precursors: 1919, 1966, 19682.4 DIY: The DNA of punk3 Pop Multiples, Camp Affirmations3.1 Andy Warhol: "Hero of the Punks"3.2 Hedonism as attack3.3 Trash and travesty4 The Weapons of the Underdog4.1 Punk propaganda4.2 Punk poetry4.3 Crime as art, scandal as art5 Art with No Future?5.1 Originality and appropriation5.2 Modernity in extremis5.3 Avant-garde vs. rear-guard6 Children Run Riot: The Art of the Infantile6.1 Dead end kids6.2 The Life of Sid Vicious: The sad, dead boy6.3 "Infancy conforms to nobody"7 Work vs. Play7.1 Punk's homo ludens7.2 Ingenious dilletantes7.3 The Baby Wagner Lullaby, or: Brilliance blackout8 SEX8.1 Queer punks and dykes in high heels 8.2 Defiant prostitutes, porn artists & well-dressed whores 8.3 Sadism and submission8.4 Punk feminism: Vamp up!9 Pain and Presence9.1 Performances and punches 9.2 "It hurts and looks cool!": Fetish fashion9.3 Real romance?10 Dystopian with a Twist 10.1 It's the end of the world10.2 The Grand Downfall Show10.3 Broken heroes, aces of failure11 The Laws of the Lawless List of Interviews and ArchivesNotesBibliographyIndex