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If modern art is the twentieth century's biography, then this autobiography of one of its pivotal figures is a unique record of our times. Larry Rivers' dazzlingly intelligent testimony takes us through the more than four decades of New York's postwar cultural explosion, telling what it was like for the artists and jazz musicians and poets and playwrights. And his honest exploration of the place of the erotic in his life and work - with all the accompanying excesses, costs, and entanglements - gives his stunning account of the journey a particular power. His talent and imagination enabled Rivers early on to discover and pursue multiple vocations, and to create a liberated self while maintaining an attachment, in his seemingly anarchic work, to the claims of tradition. Rivers started in his Bronx adolescence with a name change and a career (still in progress) as a jazz saxophonist and composer. Painting and sculpture came later, and soon there were one-man exhibitions and a stream of works, many of them now in the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney, the Corcoran, the National Gallery, the Guggenheim, museums abroad, and private collections. A great figurative

Author

Rivers, Larry, 1925-; Weinstein, Arnold

Publisher

New York : HarperCollins Publishers

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780060190385

Subjects

Art, Memoir, Biography