Joe Brainard

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Joe Brainard (born March 11, 1941 in Salem , Arkansas , USA , † May 25, 1994 New York City , United States ) was an American artist and author who is counted to the New York School .

Life

Brainard spent his youth in Tulsa , Oklahoma . He and Ron Padgett , Dick Gallup and Ted Berrigan became friends in high school when they founded the literary magazine The White Dove Review , which appeared five times in 1959/60. Brainard attended the Dayton Art Institute and later met his former colleagues in New York City .

Brainard's circle of friends in New York after 1964 included Frank O'Hara , Kenneth Koch , Alex Katz , Edwin Denby , John Ashbery and many more. He and Kenward Elmslie had a lifelong friendship that was not permanently tarnished by love affairs with other people. At the beginning of the 1980s he was looking for a distance from the artist scene. He died in 1994 of pneumonia caused by AIDS .

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Brainard has influenced both the visual arts and literature. His works cannot be assigned to any particular art direction, even if he frequented the New York School. He made assemblages , collages , drawings and paintings , as well as illustrations and book covers ; also sets and designs for theatrical costumes .

For his literary work I remember , Brainard collected almost 1,500 fragments from childhood and art, history and politics, family, school and the body. In the memory that always works with the same introduction "I remember ..." in his book, there is no support, no appreciation of particularities and meaning.

Publications

  • with Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan: Some Things . C. Press, New York 1964.
  • with Kenward Elmslie: The Baby Book . Boke Press, 1965.
  • with Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett: Bean Spasms. Poems and Prose . Kulchur Press, 1967.
  • I remember . Angel Hair, 1970. There have been several editions; most recently Granary Books, New York 2005.
  • Bolina's Journal . Big Sky Books, Bolinas 1971.
  • The Friendly Way . Siamese Banana, 1972.
  • The Cigarette Book , Siamese Banana, 1972.
  • I remember more . Angel Hair, 1972.
  • with John Ashbery: The Vermont Notebook . 1975.
  • 29 mini-essays , Z-Press, Calais . ISBN 0-915990-14-8 .
    • with Bill Berkson, James Schuyler, and others: 1984 (Nineteen Eighty-Four). Redrawn by Dieter Kerl. Translator Harry Rowohlt . March , Berlin 1983 (Reprint Area, Erftstadt 2004). Großformat Ventil Verlag , Mainz 2002 ISBN 3930559943 .
  • Ten Imaginary Still Lifes , Boke Press 1995.
  • Ron Padgett Ed .: The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard . Introd. Paul Auster . Library of America , New York 2012 ISBN 978-1-59853-149-7 .

literature

  • Joshua Kline: The White Dove Review: How a Group of Tulsa Teens Created a Literary Legend . This Land Press, 2010.
  • Ron Padgett: Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard . Coffee House Press, Minneapolis, MN, USA 2004
  • Constance M. Lewallen: Joe Brainard: A Retrospective . Granary Books, New York City 2001
  • Edmund White: City Boy . Albino Verlag, Berlin 2015 (pages 283-287).

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung: Ice cream and apricot. Accessed April 30, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Melody in letters in: FAZ of December 22, 2011, p. 28
personal data
SURNAME Brainard, Joe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American artist and author
DATE OF BIRTH March 11, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Salem , Arkansas
DATE OF DEATH May 25, 1994
Place of death New York City , USA