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One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde.Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumán Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujín, filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché and Pere Portabella, Mexican superhero Superbarrio Gómez, and more, Failure Biographies celebrates the struggles of great 20th and 21st century innovators who attempted - and failed - to change the world.Advance Praise: "Funny, irreverent and urgent, FAILURE BIOGRAPHIES' method is best described as creative mayhem. Immerse yourself in this tribute to failure and embrace all it has to offer. Magnificent!" Jack Halberstam, Author of THE QUEER ART OF FAILURE.
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- Title
- Failure Biographies
- Author
- Johnny Damm
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- Operating System
- Publication year
- 2021
- Condition
- Good
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 1946031925
- ISBN 13
- 9781946031921
Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure.
One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde.
Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumán Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujín, filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché and Pere Portabella, Mexican superhero Superbarrio Gómez, and more, Failure Biographies celebrates the struggles of great 20th and 21st century innovators who attempted - and failed - to change the world.
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World of Books Inc
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