Jack Smith
Subtitle: flaming creature : his amazing life and times
By: edited by Edward Leffingwell, Carole Kismaric, Marvin Heiferman ; essays, Nayland Blake ... [et al.] ; commentaries, Penny Arcade ... [et al.].
Contributors: Leffingwell, Edward G.; Kismaric, Carole, 1942-; Heiferman, Marvin.; P.S. 1 Museum.
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 1997
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781852424299
Subjects: Smith, Jack, -- 1932-1989 -- Exhibitions; Smith, Jack, -- 1932-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Flaming creature.
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for Contemporary Art/P.S. 1 Museum.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: During the second half of the sixties / Richard Foreman; title: The sheer beauty of junk / Stefan Brecht; title: Jack Smith or the end of civilization / Jonas Mekas; title: Jack Smith's Flaming creatures / Susan Sontag; title: The only normal man in Baghdad / Edward Leffingwell; title: Maria Montez : anima of an antediluvian world / Ronald Tavel; title: Anywhere out of the world : the photography of Jack Smith / Lawrence Rinder; title: The big heat : making and unmaking Flaming creatures / J. Hoberman; title: The message from Atlantis / Nayland Blake; title: The last days and last moments of Jack Smith / Penny Arcade; title: Restoration and slavery / Jerry Tartaglia.