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Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times - Softcover

Leffingwell, Edward; Hoberman, J.

 
9781852424299: Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times

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Creator of the notorious film Flaming Creatures, Jack Smith astonished an international audience with his work in film, photography, theater, performance and the written word. Example and antagonist to generations of artists and performers?revered by Robert Wilson, denounced by Kenneth Anger, imitated by Andy Warhol?Jack Smith is ready for his close-up, on location in the streets and ruins of the world. This volume recognizes Smith?s seminal contributions and the need for a significant rethinking of the history of the American avant-garde.

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Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Jack Smith was a writer, filmmaker and performer. He died in 1989. Edward Leffingwell is a curator and the literary executor of Jack Smith.

J. Hoberman was born in New York and grew up reading The Village Voice where he has been the senior film critic since 1988. He teaches in the Humanities Division at Cooper Union, co-edited Wait For Me at the Bottom of the Pool: The Writings of Jack Smith, and is the author of half a dozen books, including Midnight Movies (written with Jonathan Rosenbaum), Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds, Vulgar Modernism: Writing on Movies and Other Media, and The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism.

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