Joe Brainard: I Remember »

Joe Brainard grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma and moved to New York at the age of 20 in 1961. A writer and visual artist, he is associated with the New York School poets, many of whom collaborated with him. His early paintings and collages show the influences of Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, and Joseph Cornell, but his work soon distinguished itself with its combination of lyricism, wit, and congeniality. He died in 1994. A retrospective of his work organized by the Berkeley Art Museum toured the United States in 2002.

Artwork by Joe Brainard. Edited by Ron Padgett.

Publishers Weekly

Out of print for a decade, these memoirs of the artist and writer who died of AIDS last year include a new afterword by Ron Padgett. (Apr.)