I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950-1969, vol. 1 wabi-sabi

I Seem to Live: The New York Diaries 1950-1969, vol. 1 wabi-sabiSpector Books, 2020. Softcover, 824pp., 6. 4 x 8. 5 inches New First volume of two covering the artists journals between 1950 1969, when Mekas first arrived in New York, began shooting experimental films, and became an important fixture of the New York underground scene. This first volume of the filmmakers journals charts his progress from immigrant life in Williamsburg to the center of the American avant garde. (Nolan Kelly, Hyperallergic)

Thread-bound softcover

though its form crucially affects the person who makes it

this updated edition brings back to life an era of New York City history

Contributors to this issue include Clark Coolidge

" as installed in the living spaces of collectors

Christo and Jeanne-Claude

as well as ideas for new ways of living

He became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema

from hand-drawn diagrams and close-ups of pre-Columbian textiles to material studies with corn

a place of harmony and fertility

"The first book of 1985

as well as the often overlooked women associated with the college