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Joe Brainard: I Remember

Name: Joe Brainard: I Remember
Author: Joe Brainard
ISBN: 9781887123488

by Joe Brainard (Artist), Ron Padgett

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Overview

In I Remember, Joe Brainard constructs the story of his life through a series of brief entries, each beginning with the words "I remember."

His observations about family, film stars, lust at eighteen and the astonishing New York culture into which he moved from Tulsa will mesmerize and delight.

In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through a series of brief entries, each beginning with the words "I remember, " and continues with observations about family, film stars, lust, and the astonishing New York culture into which he moved to from Tulsa at the age of 18.

Synopsis

Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett.

Publishers Weekly

Out of print for a decade, these memoirs of the artist and writer who died of AIDS last year include a new afterword by Ron Padgett. (Apr.)

About the Author, Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and moved to New York at the age of 20 in 1961. A writer and visual artist, he is associated with the New York School poets, many of whom collaborated with him. His early paintings and collages show the influences of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Joseph Cornell, but his work soon distinguished itself with its combination of lyricism, wit, and congeniality. He died in 1994. A retrospective of his work organized by the Berkeley Art Museum toured the United States in 2002.