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Phillips writes about Cage (and could mean himself), "Art is done mostly by one person in a room and artists do not tend to look for heroes among the school-spawning tyrants of new orthodoxies: they seek the individual who offers fresh disciplines of liberty." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents In this deluxe edition, Patti Smith has written a poem in a separately printed broadside commerating her feelings about Robert Mapplethorpe. The book is the autobiography of Smith's young years and her deep relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, visual artist, poet and rock star who has currently returned to the music scene.Bartholomew Amazon.com review: Before she became the Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith was just some girl who came to New York in search of herself. We have a tendency to view her as always having been a rebel, guitar in hand, spouting her distinctive mix of poetry and invective at society. But the reality was that Smith came to New York as a refugee, uncertain of who she was and what she wanted to be. That's sometimes a bit hard to believe or realize, but in "Just Kids" Smith reveals just that: she wasn't one half as confident then as she is now, and that she had no idea what she was going to do once she arrived in...

Scope and Contents This book is the autobiography of Smith's young years and her deep relationship with the artist Robert Mapplethorpe. Patti Smith is a writer, performer, visual artist, poet and rock star who has currently returned to the music scene.Bartholomew Amazon.com review: Before she became the Godmother of Punk, Patti Smith was just some girl who came to New York in search of herself. We have a tendency to view her as always having been a rebel, guitar in hand, spouting her distinctive mix of poetry and invective at society. But the reality was that Smith came to New York as a refugee, uncertain of who she was and what she wanted to be. That's sometimes a bit hard to believe or realize, but in "Just Kids" Smith reveals just that: she wasn't one half as confident then as she is now, and that she had no idea what she was going to do once she arrived in New York. While this is true of almost everyone from her generation, it is somehow shocking and bizarre to ponder. More interesting was that...

Scope and Contents James Kirkup obituary (published in The Independent) of Maurice Roche born Clermont-Ferrand, France 2 November 1924; died Sevres, France 19 July 1997. To be born on the Day of the Dead might seem to presage a gloomy future. Maurice Roche, unique among contemporary French writers, who was born on that fatidic date, refused to acknowledge the coincidence as an omen of catastrophe. He spent much of his life making a mock of mortality. His irreverent spirit took a macabre delight in deriding those who took death seriously. He would quote "The Latest Decalogue" by that disabused Victorian Arthur Hugh Clough, with whom he had much in common: Thou shalt not kill; but needst not strive Officiously to keep alive. Derision was his only defence against a life he despised. Roche spent the war as a student in Lyons, then moved to Paris to start work as a journalist on Ce Soir (1946-48). Like almost every young man with literary leanings, he founded a short-lived magazine, Elements, in 1951. He...

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The prints are photographic reproductions of some of the works in this exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.