Failure Biographies

Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure.

Publisher Marketing: Funny, irreverent and urgent, Failure Biographies ' method is best described as creative mayhem. Immerse yourself in this tribute to failure and embrace all it has to offer. Magnificent! - Jack Halberstam, Author of The Queer Art of Failure Praise for Johnny Damm: [S]ophisticated and delightfully bizarre... Damm's ideal reader is an open-minded culture junkie and fan of poetry, high art, and comics, someone with a penchant for everything from Dada to Derrida. - Publishers Weekly Publisher Marketing : 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. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 09/27/2021 (EAN 9781946031921, Paperback) - *Starred Review

Format: Paperback | Pages: 182 | Publication Date: 2021-10-19