American Magus Harry Smith: A Modern Alchemist
New York: Inanout Press, 1996. First edition. Perfect bound, in wraps. Offset. 9 1/4 x 6 in. 286 pp. Very good. Item #7381
Book on the work of polymath artist, filmmaker, and music anthologist Harry Smith, featuring essays by those who knew him, including Jonas Mekas, Robert Frank, and Allen Ginsberg.
Smith was a major figure in the postwar American avant-garde, whose creative output included music, painting, poetry, films, and sound recordings. He is perhaps best-known for the Anthology of American Folk Music, a gathering of recordings from the 1920s and 30s that has achieved cult status among musicians and music aficionados.
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