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1) Just kids
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Description
In this memoir, singer-songwriter Patti Smith shares tales of New York City : the denizens of Max's Kansas City, the Hotel Chelsea, Scribner's, Brentano's and Strand bookstores and her new life in Brooklyn with a young man named Robert Mapplethorpe--the man who changed her life with his love, friendship, and genius.
2) Jay myself
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (79 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Documents the life and career of renowned photographer and artist, Jay Maisel, through his move from a 36,000 square-foot, hundred-year-old landmark building in Manhattan that he lived and worked in for forty-eight years.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xix, 457 pages, 16 un-numbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"An icon of American artistic invention, the Chelsea Hotel has been, since its founding by a French socialist utopian in 1884, a cultural dynamo lodged in the very heart of uber-capitalist New York City. Sherill Tippins, author of the acclaimed February House, delivers a lively, masterly history of the Chelsea and of the successive generations of artists who have cohabited and created there, among them John Sloan, Edgar Lee Masters, Isabella Stewart...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
xv, 478 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
"Drawn from the secret diaries and journals of novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, this is a reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the twentieth century. An intimate friend of Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, and Thornton Wilder, Steward maintained a secret sex life from childhood on, documenting his experiences in vivid (and often very funny) detail. After leaving academe to become tattoo artist Phil...
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"A memoir of mothers and daughters -- and mothers as daughters -- traced through four generations, from Paris to New York and back again. For a long time, Nadja Spiegelman believed her mother was a fairy. More than her famous father, Maus creator Art Spiegelman, and even more than most mothers, hers -- French-born New Yorker art director Françoise Mouly -- exerted a force over reality that was both dazzling and daunting. As Nadja's body changed and...
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