Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant
Leffingwell, Edward
ISBN 10: 185242429X ISBN 13: 9781852424299
Verlag: Serpent's Tail, 1997
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Beschreibung
Beschreibung:
Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant offers an in-depth look at Jack Smith's innovative contributions to performance art and his eclectic career. Serpent's Tail presents this compelling biography that explores his creative influence and enigmatic persona. From the library of John Russell Taylor. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers PL-2946-62_1
Inhaltsangabe:
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.
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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Titel: Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack ...
Verlag: Serpent's Tail
Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
Einband: Soft cover
Zustand: Very Good