F*ck Art (Let's Dance)
Biography & Memoir, Artists, Architects & Photographers, Literary, Entertainment & Performing Arts
| Author: | Sally Eckhoff | ISBN: | 9781621341277 |
| Publisher: | Water Street Press | Publication: | October 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | Language: | English |
| Author: | Sally Eckhoff |
| ISBN: | 9781621341277 |
| Publisher: | Water Street Press |
| Publication: | October 22, 2013 |
| Imprint: | |
| Language: | English |
What would you give to shoot the moon in the greatest city in the world?
F*ck Art (Let’s Dance) is a chronicle of ten slam-bang years in a very slam-bang part of New York City, and of one young painter's crusade to make that place her own.
This memoir, by a former Village Voice writer and critic, starts in 1977 with the Summer of Sam and ends with the Tompkins Square Park riots—two notorious incidents that defined an age. After a last, desperate summer in the beach towns of Long Island, the naive young wannabe artist borrows her dad’s El Camino, finances a trip to Manhattan with the change on his cufflink stand, and rents an apartment on East Tenth Street with a floor so crooked that everything that falls off the kitchen counter rolls under the bathtub. And then she begins to paint, eat, dance, and feel her way around New York.
F*ck Art might remind you of what it feels like to be a beginner in a land of crooks and geniuses.
What would you give to shoot the moon in the greatest city in the world?
F*ck Art (Let’s Dance) is a chronicle of ten slam-bang years in a very slam-bang part of New York City, and of one young painter's crusade to make that place her own.
This memoir, by a former Village Voice writer and critic, starts in 1977 with the Summer of Sam and ends with the Tompkins Square Park riots—two notorious incidents that defined an age. After a last, desperate summer in the beach towns of Long Island, the naive young wannabe artist borrows her dad’s El Camino, finances a trip to Manhattan with the change on his cufflink stand, and rents an apartment on East Tenth Street with a floor so crooked that everything that falls off the kitchen counter rolls under the bathtub. And then she begins to paint, eat, dance, and feel her way around New York.
F*ck Art might remind you of what it feels like to be a beginner in a land of crooks and geniuses.
