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Harry Everett Smith - Artist, musician and shaman. Harry was a living conduit of folk music. He delivered brilliant and unrecognized works of folk music created in the 1920's and 30's to the musicians of the 50's and 60's. He was an amazing anthologist who made sure the roots of folk music were not forgotten. He ran with the beat poets, lived an alternative and brilliant life full of art, movie making and was utterly devoted to teaching others the interconnectness of everything. Harry Smith, American Folk Music, People Inspiration, Weird History, Henry Jones, Movie Making, Blue Song, Chelsea Hotel, Joan Baez

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People Inspiration

Harry Smith: musician and shaman

Harry Smith was an artist whose activities and interests put him at the center of the mid twentieth-century American avant-garde. Although best known as a filmmaker and musicologist, he frequently described himself as a painter, and his varied projects called on his skills as an anthropologist, linguist, and translator. He had a lifelong interest in the occult and esoteric fields of knowledge, leading him to speak of his art in alchemical and cosmological terms. Harry Smith was born May 29…

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American Folk Music

Manhattan Hotels

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Avant Garde Artists

Harry Smith: American Magus

Artist, alchemical filmmaker, musical archeologist and avant garde shaman, Harry Smith’s obsessive interests made him an influential, yet not widely known, figure of 20th century Beat culture and beyond. If Smith was only responsible for preserving the folk and blues musical traditions of early America in his Anthology of American Folk Music set from 1952, we would have him to thank for providing a way forward for a young Bob Dylan and the whole of the 60s/70s folk scene. But Smith was far…

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Bettie Visits CBGB — 98 BOWERY: 1969-89

Photographs taken at CGBG from 1976-1979 showing Bettie with rock groups and personalities including the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Nancy Spungeon, and Richard Hell.

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Harry Everett Smith Harry Smith, Crayon Drawings, Digital Museum, Expressionist Art, Creative Skills, Visionary Art, Watercolor Sketch, Rare Books, Painting Illustration

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Creative Skills

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Painting Illustration

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Harry Everett Smith

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Sam Smith Songs

Design Movements

Calvin Harris - Promises (feat. Sam Smith) | LetsLoop

Listen to Promises (feat. Sam Smith) by Calvin Harris with YouTube, Spotify, Deezer, Vimeo & SoundCloud. Stream more from Calvin Harris and connect with fans to discover new music.

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Harry Everett Smith Fred Tomaselli, Harry Smith, Esoteric Art, Optical Art, Visionary Art, International Artist, Mixed Media Canvas, Color Textures, Sacred Geometry

International Artist

Mixed Media Canvas

Sacred Geometry

Fred Tomaselli

Harry Everett Smith

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Harry Smith Chelsea Hotel New York 1975 Hotel Chelsea Nyc, Harry Smith, Experimental Animation, Hotel Chelsea, Brain Drawing, Ny Hotel, Chelsea Hotel, Allen Ginsberg, Beat Generation

Hotel Chelsea Nyc

Experimental Animation

Beat Generation

harry smith: the avant-garde in the american vernacular

"Harry Smith with his 'brain drawings'" San Francisco 1950 (photo Hy Hirsh) Say what? Who dat? Who be Harry Smith? Well, he is one of those...

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The Art of Biography: Cosmic Scholar, The Life & Times of Harry Smith | Interview | Gagosian Quarterly Harry Smith, American Folk Music, Underground Film, Chelsea Hotel, Allen Ginsberg, Film Archive, Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Library Of Congress

American Folk Music

Underground Film

Library Of Congress

The Art of Biography: Cosmic Scholar, The Life & Times of Harry Smith | Gagosian Quarterly

Raymond Foye sits down with John Szwed to discuss his recent biography of the experimental polymath.

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Harry Smith: String Figures at Cabinet, New York Harry Smith, Brooklyn Map, American Folk Music, Cats Cradle, White Heat, Air And Space Museum, Human Interaction, Smithsonian Institution, Lost City

American Folk Music

Air And Space Museum

Human Interaction

Smithsonian Institution

Harry Smith: String Figures - Announcements - e-flux

Harry Smith: String Figures at Cabinet, New York

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