It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots,
and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young
people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert
Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward
photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the
city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to
the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy
Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the
Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and
infamous--the influential artists of the day and the colorful
fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of
poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and
exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of
each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by
their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one
another during the hungry years.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves
as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies
and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable,
it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to
fame.
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