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Harry B. Smith was the most prolific writer for the American musical theatre in history, working with every major American composer between 1880 and 1920. This examination of his work is thus highly instructive of the history of the American musical.

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Best known during his lifetime as an experimental filmmaker and Folkways Records music anthologist, Harry Smith (1923-1991) was a spiritual outsider and one of the most original, influential artists of the mid-century American avant-garde. An avid, inspired collector of old blues and hillbilly recordings during his youth, he became a fan of such bebop jazz as Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, and began making avant-garde film animations featuring patterns painted directly onto the negatives as visual accompaniments to jazz performances. Smith crossed paths with nearly everyone central to the cultural avant-garde; he lived for art and gnosis with little thought for practical consequences. In 1991, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Grammy Awards in New York. Five years after Smith's death, the poet Paola Igliori began conducting intimate interviews with the filmmakers, musicians, poets, and artists who knew him best. The result, Harry Smith, American Magus, offers a privileged look not only into Smith's life and artistic practice, but also into his era and the informal economy of influence that operated during that time. It provides invaluable insight into the mind of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic polymaths. This expanded edition includes photos of Smith and many other color photos and images, as well as two important interviews with Smith from Film Culture.

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"A biography of filmmaker, anthropologist, and mystic Harry Smith"--

Smith, Harry Everett, --- Anthology of American folk music. --- Artists --- Beats (Persons) --- Motion picture producers and directors --- Anthropologists

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"Abstract paintings were being produced even before Kandinsky. Completely independently from each other, Georgiana Houghton (1814-1884) in England, Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) in Sweden and Emma Kunz (1892-1963) in Switzerland developed an individual, abstract pictorial language. What they had in common was a desire to make visible the laws of nature, the intellect and the supernatural. Their works are being presented side by side for the first time in an exhibition. The three women artists all found their artistic language within the context of the spiritual movements of their times: Houghton in spiritism, af Klint in theosophy and Kunz in naturopathy. Their artworks bear witness to a 'mediumistic' praxis: Houghton and af Klint were inspired by higher beings to paint, while Kunz developed her drawings with the help of a pendulum. In addition, the volume shows stills by Harry Smith and James and John Whitney, who - inspired by various occult movements - made experimental films during the 1940s"--Publisher's website

Painting --- mysticism --- abstracte schilderkunst --- spiritualiteit --- Houghton, Georgiana --- Klint, Hilma A.F. --- Kunz, Emma --- abstracte kunst --- esoterie --- film --- natuur --- Klint, Hilma af --- Smith, Harry --- Whitney, James --- Whitney, John --- Film --- Abstract [fine arts style] --- Smith, Harry Everett --- abstracte, niet-figuratieve kunst --- Af Klint, Hilma --- Mysticism and art --- Spirituality in art --- Art, Abstract --- 7.037 --- Klint, Hilma af 1862-1944 (°Solna, Zweden) --- Houghton, Georgiana 1814 – 1884 (°Las Palmas, Gran Canaria) --- Kunz, Emma 1892-1963 (°Brittnau, Aargau, Zwitserland) --- Whitney, John 1917-1995 (°Pasadena, CA, Verenigde Staten) --- Smith, Harry Everett 1923-1991 (°Portland, Oregon, Verenigde Staten) --- Abstracte kunst ; 20ste eeuw ; ontstaan en ontwikkeling --- Art and mysticism --- Art --- Kunstgeschiedenis ; 1900 - 1950 --- Houghton, Georgiana, --- Klint, Hilma af, --- Kunz, Emma, --- Whitney, John, --- Whitney, James, --- Smith, Harry Everett, --- Smith, Harry, --- Whitney, John H. --- Whitney, John Hales, --- Af Klint, Hilma, --- Houghton, --- af Klint, Hilma --- abstracte kunst. --- natuur. --- spiritualiteit. --- esoterie. --- film. --- Houghton, Georgiana. --- Af Klint, Hilma. --- Kunz, Emma. --- Whitney, John. --- Whitney, James. --- Smith, Harry. --- Abstract [modern European style]