Christopher Felver - The Importance Of Being

Christopher Felver - The Importance Of Being In this massive undertaking of portraiture, documentary artist and photographer Christopher Felver celebrates the present moment of the anarchistic face of the new genius. Over the previous two decades, Felver has traveled the United States and Europe, portraying the greatest creative forces of our times - writers, poets, filmmakers, actors, visual artists, protesters, and those engaged in the struggle for expression during the late twentieth century. Artists and poets know they are involved with the ?sister arts ? and Felver makes them into a cyber family of friends who are bound by a common will to create. This is no ordinary portrait collection - it represents a typology of creativity and a road map to the New Left that has fed the hearts and souls of countless observers. This spectacular international family of faces is an anthology, after all, of the most adventurous discoverers in language and the visual arts of our time. It is always a revelation to see what the face reveals and conceals. As Isamu Noguchi commented on Felver?s portraiture: ?The thoughtfulness seems to show. The face responds to thoughts?. Or as Frank O?Hara proclaimed: ?One should be as clear as one?s natural reticence permits?. This is a book full of reticence, revelation and permission. This eclectic collection documents the energy and tenacity of the human spirit - the creative face of a generation. Felver has undertaken a vision to meet and document the greatest creative minds. Hardcover: 600 pages Publisher: Arena Editions (2001)