The Hasty Papers: The Millennium Edition of the Legendary One-Shot Review
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Book Description
Published as a one-shot review in late 1960, The Hasty Papers was immediately embraced by the literary and art communities for the courage of its ideas and means of expression. Legendary painter Willem de Kooning called it a "... a snapshot of us all."Marvelous and unruly, the works by artists, poets, critics, politicians and others brought together in a single publication created a vivid portrait of the moment and the future. Scorned at the time by the establishment and known mostly to their peers, many of the contributors are today's acknowledged masters.
The millennium version of this historic publication contains some 400 new photographs; an introduction by poet David Lehman; The Story of The Hasty Papers, related by Alfred Leslie in Pushkin's sonnet form; and Brother Can You Spare a Dime, an epistolary novel of sorts, documenting the making of The Hasty Papers in 111 letters to and from authors and the editors.
Contributors include: Alfred Leslie, David Lehman, Jean Paul Sartre, Pontus Hulten, Gregory Corso, James Schuyler, Walter Harrison Mason, Hannelore Hahn, Frank O'Hara, Joel Oppenheimer, Allen Ginsberg, John Ashbery, Aristophones, Jack Kerouac, J. Robert Oppenheimer, Donald Windham, Charles Olson, Derek Walcott, Kenward Elmslie, William Carlos Williams, Billy Kluver, Alan Ansen, Terry Southern, Gael Turnbull, Peter Orlovsky, Alfred Jensen, Meyer Liben, Jean Genet, Kenneth Koch and Fitzhugh Ludlow (an entire novel). Also included is the uncut text of Fidel Castro's 1960 speech to the United Nations with the point by point response by the United States.
About the Author
For the past fifty years Alfred Leslie's work as a painter and filmmaker has been both extensive in its range and persuasive in its authority, influencing many artists of his and later generations. He began as one of the youngest members of that group of post World War II artists known as Abstract Expressionists, his path clearly marked in 1949 when he exhibited, nearly simultaneously, a work in an important group show at the then prestigious Sam Kootz Gallery in new York City, and his third film (Directions: A Walk After the War Games) at a special screening at the Museum of Modern Art. His subsequent films: Pull My Daisy, The Last Clean Shirt, and Birth of a Nation 1965 are considered pioneering classics, with Pull My Daisy entering the National Film Archives. He was awarded the Gold Medal for lifetime achievement in painting by the National Institute of Arts and Letters and has received grants from the Guggenheim Foundation adn the National Endowment of the Arts. The thrust and breadth of his work has perhaps best been summed up by artist Chuck Close who, speaking in 1991 to Barbara Flynn of the extraordinary quality of Leslie's paintings and his accomplishment in creating a cohesive intellectual and political infrastructure for a resurgence of figurative art, referred to Leslie as "a hero for being one who turned the tide." Leslie lives in New York with his longtime companion Nancy de Antonio and is currently completing a new group of paintings and a new feture-length film, The Cedar Bar.
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