Marmalade Me
Jill Johnston
It is quite possible that Jill Johnston is one of the most important, radical, and innocent writers of her time. This selection of her work written in the period 1960-1970 — most of which was published in her column ‘Dance Journal’ in New Yorker’s Village Voice — represents two distinct styles of life and writing. Starting as a dedicated critic of dance, painting, sculpture, Happenings, and all forms of intermedia, Johnston experiences in the middle of this period of conflagration of work and personality that caused her writing to erupt in a fractured, anecdotal style in which her life itself in its new iconoclastic consciousness became the theatre of total concern. The writing and the life, then, were integrated in an explosive open-ended structure of reflection and intimate confession…
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Genre | Performing Arts |
Copyright Date | 1971 |
Publication Date | 1971 |
Publisher | E P Dutton Inc |
Format | Mass Market Paperback |
No. of Pages | 316 |
Language | English |
Rating | NotRated |
BookID | 8092 |