My Avant-Garde Education: A Memoir

by Bernard Cooper

Book Overview

Growing up in the suburbs--confused about his sexuality, about his consumer-oriented world, about the death of his older brother--Bernard Cooper falls in love with Pop art and sets off for the California Institute of the Arts, the center of the burgeoning field of conceptual art, in this beguiling memoir. The most famous, and infamous, artists of the time drift through the place, including Allan Kaprow and John Baldessari, not to mention the student...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393240711
• ISBN13: 9780393240719
• Release Date: February 2015
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"