Living Theater genius Julian Beck 48th Street New York hospital room, his stomach-abdomen lining cancer allowed remission for the next year while he made films & video & theater & books from Zurich to Miami; “Death is the ultimate corruption,” he announced, that day I visited, Medical Arts Center, May 1984.
1984
Artist, American, 1926 - 1997
Artwork overview
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Medium
gelatin silver print
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
image: 19.7 × 29.4 cm (7 3/4 × 11 9/16 in.)
sheet: 27.8 × 35.4 cm (10 15/16 × 13 15/16 in.) -
Accession
2012.118.66
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Allen Ginsberg Estate; Gary and Ellen Davis, Greenwich, CT; gift to NGA, 2012.
Associated Names
Inscriptions
signed by artist, across bottom in black ink: Living Theater genius Julian Beck 48th Street New York hospital room, his / stomach-abdomen lining cancer allowed remission for the next year while he made films / & video & theater & books from Zurich to Miami; “Death is the ultimate corruption,” he / announced, that day I visited, Medical Arts Center, May 1984. Allen Ginsberg; on verso, by unknown hand, upper left in graphite: #47 VE / T62; upper right circled: #49; center: page 59; center right perpendicular: 60; lower center #194/86 74 / May 84 / BK 1 #17 [?] 4 [crossed out] / Neg 27 / AG [circled]; bottom left circled: 154; bottom center: GD-AG-363; bottom right: GDC-648 EG