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Titre(s) : Harry Smith [Texte imprimé] : american magus / edited by Paola Igliori ; with contributions by Moe Asch, John Cohen, Robert Frank... [et al.]
Édition : New edition / prepared by Hedi El Kholti and Peter Valente
Publication : South Pasadena [California] : Semiotext(e), copyright 2022
Description matérielle : 327 pages : illustrations (black and white, and color) ; 23 cm
Collection : Semiotext(e) native agents series
Lien à la collection : Semiotext(e) native agents series
Note(s) : "Originally published in 1996 [with title American magus Harry Smith] by INANOUT Press"
Best known during his lifetime as an experimental filmmaker and Folkways Records music
anthologist, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a spiritual outsider and an artist of the
mid-century American avant-garde. A collector of old blues and hillbilly recordings
during his youth, he became a fan of such bebop jazz as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie,
and began making avant-garde film animations featuring patterns painted directly onto
the negatives as visual accompaniments to jazz performances. Smith crossed paths with
nearly everyone central to the cultural avant-garde; he lived for art and gnosis with
little thought for practical consequences. In 1991, he received a Lifetime Achievement
Award at the Grammy Awards in New York. Five years after Smith's death, the poet Paola
Igliori began conducting intimate interviews with the filmmakers, musicians, poets,
and artists who knew him best. The result, Harry Smith, American Magus, offers a look
not only into Smith's life and artistic practice, but also into his era and the informal
economy of influence that operated during that time. It provides insight into the
mind of one of the twentieth century's polymaths. This expanded edition includes photos
of Smith and many other color photos and images, as well as two interviews with Smith
from Film Culture
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Igliori, Paola. Éditeur scientifique
Asch, Moses (1905-1986). Collaborateur
Cohen, John (1932-2019). Collaborateur
Frank, Robert (1924-2019). Collaborateur
Sujet(s) : Smith, Harry Everett (1923-1991) -- Critique et interprétation
Avant-garde (esthétique) -- États-Unis
Indice(s) Dewey :
791.430 92 (23e éd.) = Cinéma - Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781635901641. - ISBN 1635901642
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47273693f
Notice n° :
FRBNF47273693
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Preface / Paola Igliori ; Part 1: Friends and collaborators. William Breeze ; Rani
Singh ; Jordan Belson ; Lionel Ziprin ; Debbie Freeman ; Jonas Mekas ; Rose Feliu-Pettet
("Rosebud") ; Allen Ginsberg ; Robert Frank ; Dr. Joe Gross ; James Wasserman
; Khem Caigan ; Harvey Bialy ; M. Henry Jones ; Philip Smith ; Kasoundra Kasoundra
; Paola Igliori ; Part 2: Documents. A rare interview with Harry Smith, 1968 / John
Cohen ; The birth and growth of anthology of American folk music / Moe Asch ; The
Kiowa Peyote meeting / Harry Smith ; Film-Makers' Cooperative catalogue no. 3, 1965
; The art of alchemy ; Harry Smith collections / Bill Morgan.
