Awards

• Short-listed for TaPRA Early Career Research Prize 2013 (UK)
• Short-listed for TaPRA Research Prizes: Early Career Research Award 2013
• Shortlisted for TaPRA Research Prizes: Early Career Research Award 2013.

Overview

Glorious catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960. Heralded by peers as well as later generations of artists, Smith is an icon of the New York avant-garde. Nevertheless, he is conspicuously absent from dominant histories of American culture in the 1960s, as well as from narratives of the impact that decade would have on coming years. Smith poses uncomfortable challenges to cultural criticism and historical analysis, which Glorious catastrophe seeks to uncover. The first critical analysis of Smith's practices across visual art, film, performance and writing, the study employs extensive, original archival research carried out in Smith's personal papers, and unpublished interviews with friends and collaborators. It will be essential reading for students and scholars interested in the life and art of Jack Smith, and the greater histories that he interrupts, including those of experimental arts practices, and the development of sexual cultures. -- .

Full Product Details

Author:   Dominic Johnson ,  Amelia Jones ,  Marsha Meskimmon ,  Bethan Hirst
Publisher:   Manchester University Press
Imprint:   Manchester University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.699kg
ISBN:  

9780719082993

ISBN 10:   0719082994
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   30 May 2012
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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'In Glorious Catastrophe, Johnson celebrates the fabulous, freakish spectacle of Jack Smith and his work to its fullest extent in a manner that reflects his subject's contempt for assimilation. In this, he seems inspired by Kathy Acker's injunction to writers 'to scream, to forget, to do anything except reduce radical difference, through representation, to identities, singularity, calculable and controllable' in the rethinking of art's histories.' Fiona Anderson, Contemporary Theatre Review 24:1 -- .

Dominic Johnson-stressed with Glorious catastrophe an impressive bow. The book is clearly noted the extensive research and Johnson is his ambition justice, expose the 'against historical' potential of the material. -- .

Dominic Johnson-stressed with Glorious catastrophe an impressive bow. The book is clearly noted the extensive research and Johnson is his ambition justice, expose the 'against historical' potential of the material. -- Georg Vogt. rezens.tfm

Author Information

Dominic Johnson is a lecturer in the Department of Drama at Queen Mary University of London

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