Dominic Johnson

Glorious catastrophe

Jack Smith, performance and visual culture

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Produktbeschreibung

Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. -- .

Produktdetails

• Rethinking Art's Histories
• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 388g
• ISBN-13: 9780719091476
• ISBN-10: 0719091470
• Artikelnr.: 39217911

Autorenporträt

Dominic Johnson is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Queen Mary University of London

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Jack Smith's glorious catastrophes 1. 'Little triumphs of
disaster': failure, boredom and excess 2. 'Beyond self-disappearance': Jack
Smith and art's histories 3. Flaming Creatures and the burden of disgust 4.
Innocent monsters and Normal Love 5. The deaths of Maria Montez 6.
'Glamorize your messes': scenes of writing 7. Rehearsals for the
destruction of Atlantis Bibliography Index