Genius And Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, a nd Reckless Abandon Through the Ages
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Genius And Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, a nd Reckless Abandon Through the Ages by Michael Largo
What is the price of brilliance
Why are so many creative geniuses also ruinously self-destructive From Caravaggio to Jackson Pollack, from Arthur Rimbaud to Jack Kerouac, from Charlie Parker to Janis Joplin, to Kurt Cobain, and on and on, authors and artists throughout history have binged, pill-popped, injected, or poisoned themselves for their art. Fully illustrated and addictively readable, Genius and Heroin is the indispensable reference to the untidy lives of our greatest artists and thinkers, entertainingly chronicling how the notoriously creative lived and died--whether their ultimate downfalls were the result of opiates, alcohol, pot, absinthe, or the slow-motion suicide of obsession.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780061466410 |
| ISBN 10 | 0061466417 |
| Title | Genius And Heroin: The Illustrated Catalogue of Creativity, Obsession, a nd Reckless Abandon Through the Ages |
| Author | Michael Largo |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 2008-10-07 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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