CRI 600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Mise-En-Scène, Robert Mapplethorpe, Louisa May Alcott
17 Dec 2017
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Focuses on smith"s relationship with late photographer robert mapplethorpe during the late sixties and early seventies and features stories of her encounters with pop culture giants like jimi hendrix, janis joplin and william burroughs. Patti smith is a musician, poet, and artist who comes of age in the 1960"s. Robert mapplethorpe who becomes her friend, partner, muse, protector, and supporter. Patti and robert become part of the art and music scene in new york at the height of the sixties. Patti leaves her home in southern new jersey to find success in new york city. What she finds is a hard existence where she lives on the street for a time even when she finds a job she can barely afford to buy food. The people she meets through her relationship with robert and the creative world of new. York in the 1960"s try to guide her toward where they feel she should be.
