Think of the Self Speaking: Harry Smith, Selected Interviews
- ISBN-10
- 1885089066
- ISBN-13
- 9781885089069
- Pages
- 186
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999
- Publisher
- Elbow/Cityful Press
- Author
- Harry Everett Smith
Description
Cultural Studies. This collection of interviews spans Harry Smiths long and influential life in American arts and letters. They cover a quarter-century, touching on the full range of Smiths activity as a groundbreaking experimental filmmaker, obsessive collector, folk music anthologist, visionary painter, student of Native American lore, anthropologist, cosmographer, alchemist, hermetic scholar, occultist, autodidact, classic American eccentric, and all-around explorer of the possibilities of human consciousness and creativity. Jordan Belson writes, "Think of the Self Speaking is the next best thing to being with Harry himself -- perhaps better, certainly safer. The interviews are remarkably similar to his collage films. A brilliant mind unhinged." Includes an introduction by Allen Ginsberg.
