Book of Sketches
| AUTHOR | Condo, George; Kerouac, Jack; Condo, George et al. |
| PUBLISHER | Penguin Books (04/04/2006) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
Description
A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century "Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty." In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story--or travelogue--appears, complete in itself. In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.
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ISBN-13:
9780142002155
ISBN-10:
0142002151
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
432
Carton Quantity:
40
Product Dimensions:
4.84 x 1.17 x 6.10 inches
Weight:
0.64 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Price on Product,
Ikids
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
Poetry | American - General
Poetry | American - General
Poetry | Subjects & Themes - Places
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
818.540
Library of Congress Control Number:
2005044535
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A luminous, intimate, and transcendental glimpse into the mind of Jack Kerouac, one of the most original voices of the twentieth century "Sketching . . . Everything activates in front of you in myriad profusion, you just have to purify your mind and let it pour the words and write with 100% personal honesty." In 1951, it was suggested to Jack Kerouac by his friend Ed White that he "sketch in the streets like a painter but with words." In August of the following year, Kerouac began writing down prose poem "sketches" in small notebooks that he kept in the breast pockets of his shirts. For two years he recorded travels, observations, and meditations on art and life as he moved across America and down to Mexico and back. The poems are often strung together so that over the course of several of them, a little story--or travelogue--appears, complete in itself. In 1957, Kerouac sat down with the fifteen handwritten sketch notebooks he had accumulated and typed them into a manuscript called Book of Sketches. Published for the first time, this work offers a detailed portrait of Kerouac at a key period of his literary career.
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Introduction by:
Condo, George
George Condo was born in Concord, New Hampshire, in 1957 and studied Art History and Music Theory at the University of Massachusetts in Lowell. He as occupied a prominent position in the art world for more than thirty years. His work is in the permanent collections of The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Tate, London; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; among others. Condo is represented by Skarstedt Gallery, New York; and Spruth Magers, Berlin.
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