Impossible to categorize, moving easily between the literary, art, and musical worlds, always unpredictable and impassioned, idiosyncratic musician and artist Patti Smith here presents an impressive body of visual art, mostly works on paper. Bringing together approximately 60 works spanning the past 30 years, Strange Messenger collects early pieces as well as new ones inspired by the September 11, 2001, bombing of the World Trade Center, in which Smith expresses her views about violence, religion, war, and intolerance. This book marks the first occasion that Smith's drawings have been brought together in a single volume, as well as the first publication of most of the included works.
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Born in Chicago and raised in Woodbury, New Jersey, just across the state line from Philadelphia, Patti Smith, unable to find her place in high school society, took refuge in Bob Dylan, James Brown, the Rolling Stones, and the images of Rimbaud. Dropping out of Glassboro State Teacher's College, she headed for New York, where she met and moved in with an art student named Robert Mapplethorpe. In 1975 she released her celebrated debut album, Horses. The rest is rock 'n' roll history.
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Only 9 inches tall by 6 1/2 inches wide, it contains a PLETHORA of color plates of Ms. Smith's mixed-media (mostly drawing) work. The self-portrait on p. 16 is, alone, worth the price of the book. The accompanying essays by David Greenberg and John W. Smith provide insight without artspeak. (Wonders never cease!) The writings (a bit of intro prose; a poem and some journal entries) by Ms. Smith exemplify her talent for manifesting poignancy in her own unique way. Zer Gut!!
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