Robert Reisner

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Robert George Reisner (born January 18, 1921 - February 1, 1974 in New York City ) was an American art historian and jazz writer.

He is known as the author of the first biography of Charlie Parker , in which he recorded many interviews with contemporary witnesses (82 in total). Reisner was not only a professor of art history at the New School for Social Research in New York City, but also a jazz fan. He made the acquaintance of Charlie Parker in 1953, made friends with him and organized jam sessions at the Open Door jazz club in Greenwich Village on Sunday evenings , often with Parker participating.

As an art historian, he was a pioneer of graffiti research in the late 1960s and also lectured on it.

Fonts

  • Bird, the legend of Charlie Parker, Citadel Press 1962, Da Capo 1977
  • The jazz titans, including "The parlance of hip"; with short biographical sketches and brief discographies, Garden City: Doubleday 1960
  • The literature of jazz, a selective bibliography, 2nd edition, New York Public Library 1959
  • Show me the good parts; the reader's guide to sex in literature, New York: Citadel Press 1964
  • Editor: Great Erotic Scenes from Literature, Playboy Press, Chicago 1972
  • Graffiti: two thousand years of wall writing, Chicago 1972
  • with Lorraine Wechsler: Encyclopedia of Graffiti, Macmillan 1974
  • Fakes and Forgeries in the Fine Arts. A Bibliography, New York 1950
  • with Hal Kapplow: Captions courageous: or, comments from the gallery, New York 1958

literature

  • Gary Giddins : The Death of a Hipster: Bob Reisner, 1921-74 , Village Voice, Feb. 28, 1974, pp. 42-43

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chuck Haddix Bird , 2013, p. 144
  2. ^ Staffan Jacobson: A brief history of Graffiti Research
personal data
SURNAME Reisner, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reisner, Robert George
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American art historian and jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH January 18, 1921
DATE OF DEATH 1st February 1974
Place of death New York City