Failure biographies
By: Johnny Damm
Series: Print! document series; Print! document series
Publisher: The Operating System
Published: 2021
Place of publication: Place of publication not identified]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 180
ISBN-13: 9781946031921
Subjects: Fantasy comic books, strips; Failure (Psychology); Comic books, strips; Inventors; Collage; Échec; Bandes dessinées; Inventeurs; Collage (Art)
Description: "Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde. Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumán Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujín, filmmakers Alice Guy Blaché and Pere Portabella, Mexican superhero Superbarrio Gómez, and more, Failure Biographies celebrates the struggles of great 20th and 21st century innovators who attempted - and failed - to change the world." --Bookshop.org.
Table of contents: title: I. Art histories.; title: Her here (Adventures into the Unknown #35)  -- Marta Minujín; title: Death scent (Tomb of Terror #15)  -- Pope.L; title: Vampir (Space Mystery #38)  -- Pere Portabella; title: Bodies in space -- II. Film studies.; title: Dynamo (Science Comics #7)  -- Alice Guy Blaché; title: Space watch (Space Mystery #41)  -- Joseph Stalin; title: The motion-picture director (Adventures into the Unknown #50)  -- Ida May Park; title: Bodies in space -- -- III. Tomb of Terror #14.; title: The outcast  -- Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven; title: The harder they fall  -- Raymond Rousell; title: Hidden doors  -- Elizabeth Bishop; title: End result  -- Tucumán Arde; title: Bodies in space -- -- IV. Performing arts.; title: Venus (Adventures into the Unknown #50)  -- Lorenza Böttner; title: Superbarrio says (Science Comis #3)  -- Superbarrio Gómez; title: Riddle of the runaway Earth (Space Mystery #38)  -- Benjamin Patterson; title: Fly by nigh (Black Magic #16)  -- Noah Purifoy; title: Bodies in space --; title: Success biographies: an afternote --; title: True and irrevocable failure: a conversation with Johnny Damm.