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As close as we have to a biography of Jack Smith
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About the Author
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.
Review
?I genuflect before Jack Smith, the only true ?underground? film-maker? John Waters ?He was uncompromising. He had everything? Robert Wilson ?Gadfly, trickster, visionary?Jack Smith changed the art world. In what seems like tamer times, it?s great to look back at a genuine and truly out there revolutionary? Laurie Anderson
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- PublisherSerpent's Tail
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 185242429X
- ISBN 13 9781852424299
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages300
- EditorLeffingwell Edward
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Flaming Creature: The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant
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Flaming Creature: Jack Smith, His Amazing Life and Times
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FLAMING CREATURE: JACK SMITH, HIS AMAZING LIFE AND TIMES
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Jack Smith, Flaming Creature: His Amazing Life and Times
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Flaming Creature Jack Smith His Amazing Life and Times
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Large Paper. First Edition. Uncommon book on the important underground filmmaker and maker of things Jack Smith. Published on the occassion of a large traveling exhibition. Loaded with b&w and color photos, stills, candids, artwork and text. Fine. Postcards laid in. Book. Seller Inventory # 011268
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