Furthermore, post-war popular visual culture, from queer iconography to MTV, owes a debt to Anger‘s art. His groundbreaking body of work has had a profound effect on mainstream film directors such as George Lucas and Martin Scorsese, particularly in the application of a cross-cutting editing style and the integral use of pop music. Making films continuously since the late 1940s, Kenneth Anger is considered one of the most original filmmakers of American cinema and a countercultural icon. Icons will bring together an archive of photographs, scrapbooks, letters and memorabilia from Anger’s personal collection, offering an insight into the unique vision of an artist widely acclaimed as a pioneering and influential force in avant-garde cinema, whose influence extends through generations of film makers, musicians and artists. The dazzling pictures alone are worth the price of admission.Sprüth Magers London is delighted to present an exhibition of work by the iconic filmmaker and artist Kenneth Anger, in his second solo show at the London gallery.

'the ultimate picture show: Hollywood Armageddon.' Not merely another exposé, Hollywood Babylon II, like its famous predecessor, is a bittersweet glance, past and present, at the fabled and foibled stars in their orbits. And in 'Death Valley Days' Ronald Reagan brings Hollywood Babylon to Washington, where he threatens us with. 'Closely Watched Blondes' reveals some naughty goings-on between Alfred Hitchcock and one of his favorite stars, Grace ('Princess Disgrace') Kelly 'The Magic of Self-Murder,' a tour-de-force of Hollywood reporting, is a fascinating, exhaustive autopsy on the hundreds of stars who did themselves in (How many ''Triple S' movies-in which three stars offed themselves-can you name? One is All About Eve.).

In Hollywood Babylon II you will read about Attila the Nun, a famous 'blue-blooded' star with skeletons in-and out of!-her closet. But Anger's fans want MORE-and it has taken him years to gather these scathing scandals, these tasty tidbits of movie lore, many of them unrecounted before. Later editions made publishing history and readers are still savoring what The New York Times called that 'delicious box of poisoned bonbons,' a truly prodigious anthology of star-studded scandal. Originally published in the early 1960s in Paris (it was too hot for America at the time), Hollywood Babylon became an underground legend and bestseller throughout the world. Here is more down-and-dirty Tattletale Talk from Tinseltown, illustrated with hundreds of eye-popping, hitherto unseen photographs, by the man who turned filmland gossip into an art form.

Summary: 'The all-new sequel to Kenneth Anger's controversial, classic movie book, Hollywood Babylon.

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