Glorious Catastrophe presents a detailed critical analysis of
the work of Jack Smith from the early 1960s until his AIDS-related
death in 1989. Dominic Johnson argues that Smith's work offers
critical strategies for rethinking art's histories after 1960.
Heralded by peers as well as later generations of artists, Smith is
an icon of the New York avant-garde. Nevertheless, he is
conspicuously absent from dominant histories of American culture in
the 1960s, as well as from narratives of the impact that decade
would have on coming years. Smith poses uncomfortable challenges to
cultural criticism and historical analysis, which Glorious
Catastrophe seeks to uncover. The first critical analysis of
Smith's practices across visual art, film, performance, and
writing, the study employs extensive, original archival research
carried out in Smith's personal papers, and unpublished interviews
with friends and collaborators. It will be essential reading for
students and scholars interested in the life and art of Jack Smith,
and the greater histories that he interrupts, including those of
experimental arts practices, and the development of sexual
cultures.
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