Rene Ricard, outrageous faggot art critic, author _God with Revolver_ poems, visiting my apartment from his across the hall, same building E. 12 Street (his windows opposite my kitchen window here across courtyard). Two years later fire drove him out on the street hallucinating murder basements. July 29, 1986.
1986, printed 1991
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gelatin silver print
Dimensions
image: 18.9 × 28.3 cm (7 7/16 × 11 1/8 in.) sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.)
Classification
Photograph
Department
CPH
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Gift of Gary Davis
Accession Number
2013.145.26
About the Artist
Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997), born in Newark, New Jersey, emerged as a multifaceted figure in American culture, best known as a Beat Generation poet but also a prolific visual artist whose photographs, drawings, and prints captured the raw energy of his era. His early life offers little documentation on artistic training, though he attended Columbia University in the 1940s, where he formed connectio...