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Edgewise : a picture of Cookie Mueller / by Chloé Griffin ; illustrations and design in collaboration with Gwenaël Rattke.
LIBRA Limited PN2287.M784 G75 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Griffin, Chloé, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mueller, Cookie.
- Mueller, Cookie--Friends and associates--Interviews.
- Motion picture actors and actresses--United States--Biography.
- Motion picture actors and actresses.
- Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, American.
- Alternative mass media--United States--History--20th century.
- Alternative mass media.
- Friendship.
- United States.
- Genre:
- collective biographies.
- interviews.
- Biographies
- History
- Interviews
- Biographies.
- Interviews.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition.
- Other Title:
- Picture of Cookie Mueller
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin, Germany : b_books, 2022.
- Summary:
- Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as an actress in the films of John Waters, and then as an art critic and columnist, a writer of hilarious stories and a maven of New York's downtown art world. Edgewise, by Berlin-based actress and writer Chloeʹ Griffin, tells the story of Cookie's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with the people who knew her, including John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, Sharon Niesp, Max Mueller, Linda Yablonsky, Richard Hell, Amos Poe and Raymond Foye. The contributors take us from the late-1960s artist communes of Baltimore to 1970s Provincetown and New York, through 1980s Berlin and Positano. Along with the text, Edgewise includes artwork, unpublished photographs and archival material and photography by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 324-326) and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Tom Farinholt and Blair Edlow Memorial Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9783942214209
- 3942214202
- OCLC:
- 1381360238
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