To ease my troubled mind : the authorised unauthorised history of Billy Childish
Kessler, Ted (Periodical editor)2024
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For forty-five years now, Billy Childish has been making visual art, performing and recording in garage punk bands, and writing novels and poetry. His output and productivity are truly phenomenal, and it has all, up to now, been an underground pursuit by an artist who refuses to compromise, pander to the Establishment, or sell out. This book will tell the remarkable story of Billy Childish, artist, poet, novelist and musician. About the abuse he suffered as a child at the hands of a family friend. How his father ended up in prison for smuggling hashish. It will explain how he self-sabotaged a career as a stone mason in Chatham Docks as a teenager, why he was expelled from St Martin's Art School.
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London : White Rabbit, 2024.London : White Rabbit, 2024.
Collation:
336 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399615532 (hbk)
Dewey class:
920 CHI
Language:
English
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BRN:
2928326