Daily Dose Pick: Harry Smith
on Jan
25, 2010
Based on
a 2001 symposium at
the Getty Research Institute, Harry Smith: The Avant-Garde in the
American Vernacular surveys the artist’s influence on American film,
music, and the visual arts.
Featuring
color reproductions of Smith’s images, as well as essays by scholars, friends,
and colleagues, the book explores the life of the 20th-century Renaissance man
best known for his definitive Anthology of American Folk Music — a
six-record compilation of commercial songs from 1926-1932 that helped
facilitate the folk revival of the ’60s. The multifaceted mystic also achieved
cult-hero status in the world of cinema for his experimental films, and
received critical praise for his rare, freeform abstract paintings.
Download a sampling of public-domain songs from
the Anthology of American Folk Music, visit the Harry Smith Archives online,
and buya copy of the book
.
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Hy
Hirsh (American, 1911-61), Harry Smith with his “brain drawings,” San
Francisco, ca. 1950. © Harry Smith Archives. From Harry Smith, Getty
Publications.
Harry
Smith, Study
for Film #9: Prelude and Fugue, ca. 1950. Whereabouts unknown. © Harry Smith
Archives. From Harry
Smith, Getty
Publications.
Harry
Smith, Still from Film
#11: Mirror Animations, ca. 1957, 3 min. 35 sec., 16 mm, color, sound.
©Harry Smith Archives. From Harry
Smith, Getty
Publications.
Harry
Smith, Still
from Film #18: Mahagonny, 1970-1980 (restored 2002), 141 min., 35 mm,
color, sound. © Harry Smith Archives. FromHarry Smith, Getty
Publications.
Harry
Smith, Untitled, ca. 1950-51,
mixed media on board, 59.7 x 60.3 cm (23 1/2 x 22 3/4 in.). Collection of
Cherry Karou Hulsey. © Harry Smith Archive. From Harry Smith, Getty
Publications.
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