Just Kids
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.35 (716 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060936223 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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In Just Kids, Patti Smith’s first book of prose, the legendary American artist offers a never-before-seen glimpse of her remarkable relationship with photographer Robert Mapplethorpe in the epochal days of New York City and the Chelsea Hotel in the late sixties and seventies. An honest and moving story of youth and friendship, Smith brings the same unique, lyrical quality to Just Kids as she has to the rest of her formidable body of work—from her influential 1975 album Horses to her visual art and poetry.
Portraits of the Artists as a Young Couple First caveat: I read this book on my 7" Fire. The reproductions of photos and drawings it contains and which enhance the story are too small to view adequately. There are also more of them in the paperback edition and they're more easily viewable.Second: It helps if you're a Smith rock fan and/or a Mapplethorpe photography aficionado.OK, that said this is Smith's memoir of the early formative years of the artists Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe and th. A perfect period piece: Poetic, rich, moving but ultimately sad - NYC musicians and artists, punks and mainstream fame H. Williams We had a large and enthusiastic book group meet at The LGBT Center in NYC to Smith's memoir of punk NYC and her long but tragic relationship with the photographer Robert Mapplethorpe.Everyone either liked the book or loved it. I think we actually have better discussions when there's some minor disagreement, but this was a very pleasant and, for many of us, a rather nostalgic evening.There were a few comments that Patti's style of writing was simple and re. "GREAT BOOK - an instant favorite" according to Mick. Recommended to me by my sister who has a degree in English literature. Wow. Lovely homage to Robert Maplethorpe. Patti simply and clearly and beautifully states the story of her life which is downright fascinating. My life might have been more like hers if I had the courage to risk being a "starving artist". While I might not always resonate with her aesthetics, and I do not believe that artists must necessarily suffer to be great, I do admire her profoun
Best Books of the Month, January 2010: Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe weren't always famous, but they always thought they would be. Mapplethorpe was quicker to find his metier, with a Polaroid and then a Hasselblad, but Smith was the first to fame, transformed, to her friend's delight, from a poet into a rock star. (Mapplethorpe soon became famous too--and notorious--before his death from AIDS in 1989.) Smith's memoir of their friendship, Just Kids, is tender and artful, open-eyed but surprisingly decorous, with the oracular style familiar from her anthems like "Because the Night," "Gloria," and "Dancing Barefoot" balanced by her powers of observation and memory for everyday details like the price of automat sandwiches and the shabby, welcoming fellow bohemians of the Chelsea Hotel, among whose ranks these baby Rimbauds found their way. --Tom Nissley