Granary Books announces the publication of two new books relating to
the work of seminal NY filmmaker, performance artist and photographer
Jack Smith.
**J. Hoberman. On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures (and other
Secret-Flix of Cinemaroc). Reviled, rioted over, and banned as
pornographic - even as it was recognized as an unprecedented
visionary masterpiece - Jack Smith's 1963 Flaming Creatures is the
most important and influential underground movie ever released in
America. J. Hoberman's monograph details the creative making and
legal unmaking of this extraordinary film, a source of inspiration
for artists as disparate as Andy Warhol, Frederico Fellini and John
Waters, as well as a scandal taken to the U. S. Supreme Court, a
film, described by its maker as "a comedy set in a haunted movie
studio." This important new book is augmented with a dossier of
personal recollections, relevant documents and remarkable, previously
unpublished on-set photographs by Norman Solomon.
1-887123-52-0
$29.95
144 pages, 8 1/4 x 11 1/4" paperback
illustrated throughout in color and black and white; beautifully
designed by Chippy [Heung-Heung Chin]
Published by Granary Books and Hips Road
**Jack Smith. The Beautiful Book. First published by Piero Heliczer's
the dead language in 1962 this is the only autonomous collection of
Jack Smith's photographs to appear during his lifetime. The Beautiful
Book comprises 19 hand-tipped black and white contact prints (2 1/4
square) originally published in a hand crafted edition of 200. Our
facsimile edition (also 200 copies - of which only 140 are for sale)
is made in collaboration with the Plaster Foundation - the
photographs are printed from the original negatives - hand-tipped
with a silkscreened cover - saddle-stitched. A seminal photographic
artists' book [pre-dates Ruscha's initial efforts] but lacking from
many prominent collections. Beautifully produced in the spirit of the
original. "We studied these photographs with keen eye discovering new
& more beautiful images hidden in every dissolve & curve of the
draperies & silks which ran through these masterpieces like some long
lost mysterious fume from byzantium." Ron Rice.
No ISBN
$350
To order:
J. Hoberman. On Jack Smith's Flaming Creatures is available from the
publisher, from our primary distributor D.A.P. (1 800 338-book) and
from the primary library jobbers.
Jack Smith. The Beautiful Book is available only from the publisher.
--
Steve Clay
Granary Books, Inc.
307 Seventh Ave #1401
NY NY 10001
212 337 9979
fax 212 337 9774
www.granarybooks.com
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