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Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings

Door Jack Kerouac

Categorie	Schilderkunst
Boeknummer	#407808-LI20
Titel	Departed Angels: The Lost Paintings
Auteur	Kerouac, Jack
Boektype	Paperback
Uitgeverij	New York, NY : Thunder's Mouth Press
Jaar van uitgave	2004
ISBN10	1560256214
ISBN13	9781560256212
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Paperback, numerous (full page) illustrations in colour, oblong (circa 21x22cm).
Samenvatting	This first-ever collection of Jack Kerouac's visual art includes nearly every existing full-color painting collected and preserved by the Kerouac estate in Lowell, Massachusetts. Also included are dozens of black-and-white line drawings, sketches, and facsimile reproductions of Kerouac's notations from his unpublished notebooks. In writing, Kerouac's restless and relentless experimentation? what he called "spontaneous bop prosody"? pushed language to the boundaries of meaning. In painting and drawing he found a complementary means of expression. A friend and admirer of painters Willem de Kooning, Larry Rivers, Franz Kline, and Dody Muller, Kerouac was an ardent and deliberate student who worked to develop and refine his skills and his conception of the act of painting? a concepti... (Lees verder)on related to the spontaneous composition he had pioneered in his books. Ed Adler's essay offers an unprecedented view of Kerouac, the visual artist. Rich in anecdote and drawing on extensive quotation from Kerouac's letters, notebooks, and published writings, Adler's essay demonstrates the biographical and thematic preoccupations common to Kerouac's writing and painting, especially Kerouac's struggle to integrate the two spiritual traditions, Catholicism and Buddhism, to which he was devoted. No consideration of Kerouac will be complete without reference to this heretofor- unseen aspect of his life and work.
Pagina's	285
Conditie	Goed — Top corner last pages folded.
Prijs	€ 10,00

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