Jack Smith: Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times

Jack Smith; Edward Leffingwell, Carole Kismaric; Marvin Heiferman

London and Long Island City

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Serpent's Tail and The Institute for Contemporary Art/ P. S. 1 Museum

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1997

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First Edition.

25.5cm x 20cm. [vi], 266 pages, illustrations, some colour. Illustrated french fold wrappers.

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Flaming Creature: The Art and Times of Jack Smith. “Few artists can be said to have had a greater influence on the history of experimental cinema, queer cinema, and performance art than Jack Smith (1932 – 1989)… His style of camp blended Hollywood orientalism, burlesque, kitsch, polymorphous sexuality, and social satire. Caustically funny, politically trenchant, and defiantly intolerant of intolerance, he provoked police raids and censorial judges, and created a beautiful, haunting, poignant, outrageous, orgiastic body of work that transformed the artistic landscape of the New York underground. ” (from Musuem of Modern Art website).

Minor foxing to top edge. Near Fine Condition.

SOLD