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"Just Kids" Author: [US] Patti Smith Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Producer: Utopia
"Just Kids" Author: [US] Patti Smith Publisher: Guangxi Normal University Press Producer: Utopia
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Introduction · · · · · ·
It was the summer of love and the summer of restlessness. A chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people to the path of art, dedication and enlightenment.
Later, Patti Smith would become a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his provocative style toward photography. But at this moment, they were just two hungry young people, walking through the city, swept away by innocence and passion. From Coney Island to 42nd Street, they felt the pulse of the city and finally came to "Max's Kansas City." At that famous round table, Andy Warhol, the "Pope of Pop," was no longer there, but his royal family members were still there to receive worship.
In 1969, the year humans landed on the moon, they settled into the Chelsea Hotel and quickly became part of this community of the notorious and the famous, meeting the most influential artists of the time and all sorts of marginal outcasts.
It was a time of heightened consciousness, when the worlds of poetry, rock, art, and gender politics collided and exploded. In this atmosphere, the two kids made a pact to look out for each other. They were high-spirited romantics who devoted themselves completely to their creations and were fueled by each other's dreams and desires. In the hungry years, they took turns providing each other with inspiration and nourishment.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It is a celebration of New York in the 1960s and 1970s, when the city was emerging as the cultural capital of the Western world. It chronicles its riches and its poverty, its gangsters and its thugs. It tells a true myth, a portrait of a young artist on the rise, and the prelude to fame that follows.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Patti Smith is an American writer, performer, and visual artist. Her creative talent first emerged in the 1970s when she revolutionized the combination of poetry and rock music. She recorded twelve albums, of which Horses was hailed by Rolling Stone magazine as one of the 100 greatest albums of all time. Smith held her first exhibition of paintings at Gotham Books in New York in 1973. Her books include Just Kids, which won the 2010 National Book Award, as well as Witt, Babel, Woolgathering, The Coral Sea, Auguries of Innocence, and M Train. In 2005, the French Ministry of Culture awarded Smith the Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres, the highest honor bestowed by the French government on an artist. In 2007, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Smith married Fred Sonic Smith in Detroit in 1980. Smith has a son, Jackson, and a daughter, Jessie. Smith currently lives in New York City.
Translator Liu Yi, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts of Tsinghua University in 2000 and became a rock writer. He used the pen name "Liu E" and other names. His early music reviews were mostly published in rock magazines such as "Popular Songs", and his life was intertwined with the underground rock scene in Beijing. In 2005, he began to translate articles for the mainland version of "Rolling Stone" magazine and retired from the music industry. In addition to this book, he has also published translations of "Bound for Glory" (Woody Guthrie, 2014). weibo.com/etiaoduanku
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