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Not only was Frank O'Hara (1926-1966) one of the most important American poets of his generation, he was also intimately involved with the art world of the 1950s and 1960s, a time when New York had become the cultural capital of the world. As an associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art, O'Hara organized a series of important exhibitions, notably of the work of Franz Kline and of Robert Motherwell. In Memory of My Feelings: Frank O'Hara and American Art explores this key period in modern art by presenting artists who were associated with O'Hara and whose seminal works are reflected in his poetry.Featuring over 80 works by twenty-three artists, the book focuses on works closely tied to specific poems by Frank O'Hara, notably Jasper Johns's In Memory of My FeelingsFrank O'Hara and Grace Hartigan's Oranges. Included are direct collaborations between O'Hara and various artists such as Joe Brainard, Norman Bluhm, and Larry Rivers, as well as portraits of the poet by Elaine de Kooning and Alex Katz. Franz Kline, Alice Neel, and Joan Mitchell are some of the other artists highlighted.The book is a timely re-examination of the relationship between art and poetry at this crucial moment in American art. It also offers new insights into the charismatic figure of Frank O'Hara and his world. ... Read more

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Indispensable
Frank O'Hara poetry makes constant references to painting.He was friends with many painters, and was a curator at MOMA.This book provides a convenient visual tour of O'Hara art-world connections, including many paintings, drawings, and photos of the poet, along with his collaborations with Larry Rivers and Joe Brainard.

A "must" for all Frank O'Hara fans and enthusiasts.
In Memory Of My Feelings is a collection which examines contemporary artist Frank O'Hara and his influence on American art, providing an excellent catalog of both his works and portraits of O'Hara as presented byhis contemporary artists. Color pictures on almost every page accompany ascholarly survey of his life, times, and the art circles he worked with. Anexcellent catalog. ... Read more

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"...Olins voice is both raw and strangely accommodating. This is a marvelous debut."-John Asbherry"Jeni Olin's poems are packed with emotional incident and strong, sometimes turbulent, feelings that she illuminates with ironic immediacy and brilliant insouciance..."-Tony Towle"...never veering far from her 'base,' her soul, it is both blindingly accurate and viscerally compelling poetry." - Darragh Park. ... Read more

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From 1963 to 1978 Joe Brainard (author of I Remember) created more than one hundred works of art that appropriated the classic comic strip character Nancy and sent her into an astonishing variety of spaces, all electrified and complicated by the incongruity of her presence.

In The Nancy Book, Joe Brainard's Nancy traverses high art and low, the poetic and pornographic, the surreal and the absurd. Whether inserted into hypothetical situations, dispatched on erotic adventures, or seemingly rendered by the hands of artists as varied as Leonardo da Vinci, R. Crumb, Larry Rivers, Pablo Picasso, and Willem de Kooning, Brainard's Nancy revels in as well as transcends her two-dimensionality. A beguiling balance of mischief and innocence, irreverence and wonder, spontaneity and calculation, Brainard's Nancys accumulate into a complex work of great originality and wit, equal parts surprise and subtlety.

The Nancy Book includes 78 full page reproductions in color and b/w and features collaborations with poets Bill Berkson, Ted Berrigan, Robert Creeley, Frank Lima, Frank O'Hara, Ron Padgett, and James Schuyler. The Nancy Book also includes a reminiscence by Ron Padgett as well as an original essay by Ann Lauterbach that locates, with poetic and critical acumen, the matrix of relationships that informed Brainard s work, illuminating the Nancy works in particular.

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I remember Joe Brainard
i never saw this book, but i saw a bunch of Joe's "Nancy" drawings in the old Peace Eye Booksore in the east village, which was run by Ed Sanders of the Fugs. whew, that's a long sentence eh? well, years later i attended the School of Visual Arts and Joe was one of my painting instructors. we didn't see eye to eye because he taught a figure painting class and i refused to put faces or heads on my figure studies because i said that if you put a face or head on it, it becomes a portrait, not a figure study.i liked joe. when i asked him about those Nancy cartoons in the Peace Eye he sort of shrugged and looked embarrassed and i never brought it up again. that's all i know ... Read more

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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ... Read more