Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard ( born March 11, 1941 in Salem, Arkansas, USA, † May 25, 1994 New York City, United States) was an American artist and writer who is counted to the New York School.

Life

Brainard spent his youth in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Even in high school, he and Ron Padgett, Ted Berrigan Dick Gallup and friends as they the literary magazine The White Dove Review, which appeared in the years 1959/60 five times. Brainard attended the Dayton Art Institute and later met with his former colleagues together in New York City.

At Brainard Friends in New York after 1964 included, among others, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, Alex Katz, Edwin Denby, John Ashbery and many more. Kenward Elmslie with whom he had a lifelong friendship that was not clouded permanently by love affairs with other people. At the beginning of the 1980s he sought distance from the art scene. He died in 1994 of pneumonia, which was caused by AIDS.

Publications

• With Ron Padgett and Ted Berrigan: Some Things. C. Press, New York 1964.
• Kenward Elmslie with: The Baby Book. Boke Press, 1965.
• With Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett: Bean Spasms. Poems and Prose. Kulchur Press, 1967.
• I Remember. . Angelhair, 1970 There were several ed; last Granary Books, New York, 2005. In German, Translator Uta Goridis: I remember. Walde Graf, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03774-040-8.

• With Bill Berkson, James Schuyler and others: 1984 ( Nineteen Eighty Four ). Conversely Records by Dieter guy. Translator's Harry Rowohlt. March, Berlin, 1983 ( Reprint Area, Erftstadt 2004). Large Format valve Verlag, Mainz 2002 ISBN 3930559943rd