Garage rock was the first form of music called 'punk', and indeed that style influenced much of punk rock. John Waters' 1972 underground classic, Pink Flamingos, is considered an important precursor of punk culture. In his autobiography No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish!, John Lydon remembers the influence that film version of A Clockwork Orange had on his own style.

George Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four might have inspired much of punk's distrust for the government. Kerouac's On the Road gave Jim Carroll the impetus to write The Basketball Diaries, perhaps the first example of punk literature. Punk was influenced by the Beat generation, especially Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Malcolm McLaren described the Sex Pistols as Dickensian.

Charles Dickens' working class politics and unromantic depictions of disenfranchised street youth influenced British punk in a number of ways. Poet Arthur Rimbaud provided the basis for Richard Hell's attitude, fashion, and hairstyle. Various writers, books, and literary movements were important to the formation of the punk subculture. In more recent times, postmodernism has made headway into the punk scene. Pop art also influenced the look of punk visual art. Andy Warhol and his Factory studio played a major role in setting up what would become the New York punk scene. Another source of punk's inception was pop art. Minimalism furnished punk with its simple, stripped-down, and straightforward style. If not a direct influence, futurism, with its interests in speed, conflict, and raw power foreshadowed punk culture in a number of ways. The relationship between punk rock and popular music has a clear parallel with the irreverence Dadaism held for the project of high art. Several strains of modern art anticipated and influenced punk. Marxism gave punk some of its revolutionary zeal. Nihilism also had a hand in the development of punk's careless, humorous, and sometimes bleak character. Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren consciously embraced situationist ideas, which are also reflected in the clothing designed for the band by Vivienne Westwood and the visual artwork of the Situationist-affiliated Jamie Reid, who designed many of the band's graphics. The cultural critique and strategies for revolutionary action offered by the Situationist International in the 1950s and 1960s were an influence on the vanguard of the British punk movement, particularly the Sex Pistols. The most overt is anarchism, especially its artistic inceptions. Several precursors to the punk subculture had varying degrees of influence on that culture.Ī number of philosophical and artistic movements were influences on and precursors to the punk movement.

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