Great Demon Kings
1960年代ニューヨークの前衛芸術と詩の世界を、欲望と友情、創作の熱気とともに回想する自伝。
作品情報
1960年代ニューヨークの前衛芸術と詩の世界を、欲望と友情、創作の熱気とともに回想する自伝。
1960年代ニューヨークの前衛芸術と詩の世界を、欲望と友情、創作の熱気とともに回想する自伝。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Picador Paper
- 発売日
- 2021-08-03
- ページ数
- 368ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 14.25 x 2.34 x 22.2 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781250798756
- ISBN-10
- 1250798752
- 価格
- 3141 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Memoirs
A rollicking, sexy memoir of a young poet making his way in 1960s New York City When he graduated from Columbia in 1958, John Giorno was handsome, charismatic, ambitious, and eager to soak up as much of Manhattan's art and culture as possible. Poetry didn't pay the bills, so he worked on Wall Street, spending his nights at the happenings, underground movie premiers, art shows, and poetry readings that brought the city to life. An intense romantic relationship with Andy Warhol—not yet the global superstar he would soon become—exposed Giorno to even more of the downtown scene, but after starring in Warhol's first movie, Sleep , they drifted apart. Giorno soon found himself involved with Robert Rauschenberg and later Jasper Johns, both relationships fueling his creativity. He quickly became a renowned poet in his own right, working at the intersection of literature and technology, freely crossing genres and mediums alongside the likes of William Burroughs and Brion Gysin. Twenty-five years in the making, and completed shortly before Giorno's death in 2019, Great Demon Kings is the memoir of a singular cultural pioneer: an openly gay man at a time when many artists remained closeted and shunned gay subject matter, and a devout Buddhist whose faith acted as a rudder during a life of tremendous animation, one full of fantastic highs and frightening lows. Studded with appearances by nearly every it-boy and girl of the downtown scene (including a moving portrait of a decades-long friendship with Burroughs), this book offers a joyous, life-affirming, and sensational look at New York City during its creative peak, narrated in the unforgettable voice of one of its most singular characters.
John Giorno (1936–2019) was a New York–based poet and performance artist and the founder of Giorno Poetry Systems. A longtime member of the Lower Manhattan art scene, Giorno was also an AIDS activist and Tibetan Buddhist whose work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, among other institutions.
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Wow, what a fantastic book this was! John Giorno new all the great Beat poets, and all the artists of 60's and 70's New York. He was also Andy Warhol's lover, so there is a lot of info on the more "personal" warhol (as personal as it gets with him, I guess?) He was also a good friend of William. S. Burroughs. If you are interested in the New York scene, art or the Great beat poets this is a must. It's also quite clear that this memoir is written by a poet/writer. It's up there with my top 50 books of all time. (But I am obsessed with Warhol, and Burroughs, so I might be slightly bias?) Great addition to every serious Library.
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le livre est arrivé abîmé, avec la couverture déchirée.
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Shallow, pornographic, and name-dropping: my favourite qualities in a memoir! If you want to learn about the penis sizes of the 1960s New York art world (Steve Paxton, quite large; Robert Rauschenberg, very large; Gene Swenson, presumptively large, glimpsed in outline in khaki shorts), this is the book for you. Other charms revealed also. An enjoyably silly and unwittingly laugh-out-loud memoir by a socially important, constitutionally frivolous and artistically questionable poet.
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Very interesting book. A little TMI on the sex lives of Warhol, Haring, Rauschenberg, William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg but it was a quick and fascinating read. Actually wish Giorno would have talked more about his own art.
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The author’s friendships and romantic relationships with well known artists and writers was the basis for this being so interesting. The frank and proud tales of promiscuity were just part of this author’s philosophy of life. The later new age mind set got to be a bit much and I had to skim over a lot of that and skim over the detailed, long, drawn out and weird way he dealt with William Burroughs’ death. But overall, as an artist I felt this was a worthwhile read.
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