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Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators.
List of contents
Introduction: Jack Smith's glorious catastrophes
1. 'Little triumphs of disaster': failure, boredom and excess
2. 'Beyond self-disappearance': Jack Smith and art's histories
3. Flaming Creatures and the burden of disgust
4. Innocent monsters and Normal Love
5. The deaths of Maria Montez
6. 'Glamorize your messes': scenes of writing
7. Rehearsals for the destruction of Atlantis
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Dominic Johnson is a lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London
Summary
Glorious catastrophe presents the first detailed critical analysis of the visual art, film, performance and writing of Jack Smith, an icon of the New York avant-garde, from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. It uses his personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. -- .
