Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Susan Sontag • John Szwed • ISBN 9780374282240
Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
Susan Sontag • John Szwed • ISBN-13 9780374282240
ISBN-10 Not provided • 2023
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux , 2023. Hardcover, 416pp., 6.5 x 9.5 inches New The first comprehensive biography of Harry Smith, 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.
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