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Forrest Bess : Key to the Riddle, Hardcover by Smith, Chuck; Thurman, Robert ...
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- ISBN
- 9781576876220
- Book Title
- Forrest Bess : Key to the Riddle
- Item Length
- 11 in
- Publisher
- powerHouse Books
- Publication Year
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.9 in
- Genre
- Art, Social Science
- Topic
- Individual Artists / General, Techniques / Painting, Gender Studies, American / General
- Item Width
- 8.5 in
- Item Weight
- 40.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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Painter, fisherman, pseudo-hermaphrodite-- Forrest Bess lived his life in obscurity at an isolated bait camp off the east coast of Texas. From 1949 through 1967, Bess showed at the Betty Parsons Gallery in New York City, alongside superstar artists such as Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko. Rediscovered after his death in 1977, Bess's small visionary paintings are now prized by museums and collectors for their primal beauty, and can fetch over $200,000 apiece. Bess's treasured canvases were only part of a grander theory--based on alchemy, Jungian philosophy, and aboriginal rituals--that proposed that hermaphrodism was the key to immortality. As an artist, Bess could never equivocate, and in 1960 he underwent an operation to become a pseudo-hermaphrodite. For the first time ever in print, Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle combines the beauty of Bess's art with the drama and tragedy of his personal life. Using Bess's own hauntingly sincere words (in letters to Betty Parsons, Meyer Schapiro, and others) the book traces the life and logic of this forgotten artist and explains how a love of beauty and a desire for wholeness lead Bess to self-surgery and, ultimately, a mental hospital. Forrest Bess: Key to the Riddle is a fascinating look at one of America's most notorious cult visionaries--a man who truly believed that art could save his life.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
powerHouse Books
ISBN-10
1576876225
ISBN-13
9781576876220
eBay Product ID (ePID)
117173184
Product Key Features
Book Title
Forrest Bess : Key to the Riddle
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Individual Artists / General, Techniques / Painting, Gender Studies, American / General
Publication Year
2013
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Social Science
Number of Pages
160 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
11 in
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Width
8.5 in
Item Weight
40.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Nd237
Reviews
"Smith compiled the painter's works and letters to take us inside the mind of the enigmatic artist." -Huffington Post
Copyright Date
2013
Lccn
2013-933486
Dewey Decimal
759.13
Dewey Edition
23
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