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Farrar, Straus and Giroux 8/22/2023 12: 00: 00 AM Hardcover PLEASE NOTE, WE DO NOT SHIP TO DENMARK. New Book. Shipped from UK in 4 to 14 days. Established seller since 2000. Please note we cannot offer an expedited shipping service from the UK.
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Sep 2023] Hardcover Neuware - Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner'The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith's personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task.' -Dwight Garner, The New York TimesGrammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture.He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, had a front-row seat to a young Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, was admired by Susan Sontag, and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation. He was always broke, generally intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, 'the only person I met in my life that transcended everything.'In Cosmic Scholar, the Grammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures. From ...
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Special order direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Buy with confidence! Book is in new, never-used condition [Amherst, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Macmillan US|Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times Dwight Garner The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith s personality to catch . [Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc Sep 2023] Hardcover Neuware - Named one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times' Dwight Garner'The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith's personality to catch blades of sun. He brings the right mixture of reverence and comic incredulity to his task.' -Dwight Garner, The New York TimesGrammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed presents the first biography of Harry Smith, the brilliant eccentric who transformed twentieth century art and culture.He was an anthropologist, filmmaker, painter, folklorist, mystic, and walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, had a front-row seat to a young Thelonious Monk, lived with (and tortured) Allen Ginsberg, was admired by Susan Sontag, and was one of the first artists funded by Guggenheim Foundation. He was always broke, generally intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, 'the only person I met in my life that transcended everything.'In Cosmic Scholar, the Grammy Award-winning music scholar and celebrated biographer John Szwed patches together, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures. From ...
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York] Hardcover Hardcover. He was an anthropologist, a filmmaker, a painter, a folklorist, a mystic, and a walking encyclopedia. He taught Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe about the occult, swapped drugs with Timothy Leary, jammed with Thelonious Monk, lived with Allen Ginsberg, and received one of the first Guggenheim grants. He was always broke, frequently intoxicated, compulsively irascible, and unimpeachably authentic. Harry Smith was, in the words of Robert Frank, "the only person I met in my life that transcended everything."In Cosmic Scholar, the celebrated biographer John Szwed reconstructs, for the first time, the life of one of the twentieth century's most overlooked cultural figures. From his time recording the customs of Native American tribes to living in Greenwich Village in its heyday, Smith was consumed by an unceasing desire to create a unified theory of culture. He was an insatiable collector, responsible for the influential Anthology of American Folk Music and several pioneering experimental films, but he was also a destructive eccentric who was unable to survive in regular society or keep himself healthy or sober.Exhaustively researched, energetically told, and complete with a trove of images, Cosmic Scholar is a feat of biographical restoration and the long-overdue deification of an American icon.Includes 32 pages of black-and-white and ...
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover Special order item direct from the distributor [Victoria, BC, Canada] [Publication Year: 2023]
ISBN10: 0374282242, ISBN13: 9780374282240, [publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux] Hardcover First Edition signed by author and dated by him 02/25/2023; an extraordinary examination of the life of an insatiable cultural figure, creator and collector; a true eccentric and icon [Westport, CT, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2023]
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