Just Kids
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| Rating | : | 4.32 (591 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B005EJFVHY |
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| Number of Pages | : | 251 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-03 |
| Language | : | English |
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Portraits of the Artists as a Young Couple First caveat: I read this book on my 7" Fire. The reproductions of photos and drawings it contains and which enhance the story are too small to view adequately. There are also more of them in the paperback edition and they're more easily viewable.Second: It helps if you're a Smith rock fan and/or a Mapplethorpe photography aficionado.OK, that said this is Smith's memoir of the early formative years of the artists Patti Smith and. H. Williams said A perfect period piece: Poetic, rich, moving but ultimately sad - NYC musicians and artists, punks and mainstream fame. We had a large and enthusiastic book group meet at The LGBT Center in NYC to Smith's memoir of punk NYC and her long but tragic relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.Everyone either liked the book or loved it. I think we actually have better discussions when there's some minor disagreement, but this was a very pleasant and, for many of us, a rather nostalgic evening.There were a few comments that Patti's style o. GREAT BOOK - an instant favorite Recommended to me by my sister who has a degree in English literature. Wow. Lovely homage to Robert Maplethorpe. Patti simply and clearly and beautifully states the story of her life which is downright fascinating. My life might have been more like hers if I had the courage to risk being a "starving artist". While I might not always resonate with her aesthetics, and I do not believe that artists must necessarily suffer to be gre
It serves as a salute to New York City during the late 60s and 70s and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. National Book Award, Nonfiction, 2010It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by thei