BOVE, Carol; BYERS, Dan; SIGNH, Rani; SUSSMAN, Elisabeth (eds.)
Fragments of a Faith Forgotten: The Art of Harry Smith

More Harry Smith! This time with a big monograph – published in the aftermath of the exhibition coorganized by the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Carpenter Center at Harvard University in 2024.

The first publication featuring extensive color illustrations of Smith’s visual art, films and collections, Fragments of a Faith Forgotten contains biographical information alongside examinations of his work across mediums. The book follows Smith from an isolated Depression-era childhood in the Pacific Northwest through his counterculture youth in postwar Berkeley, California. From there, it traces his path through bebop and experimental cinema in San Francisco, to his profoundly influential decades spent in New York City, where he was an essential part of the city’s avant-garde... [publishers’ note]

Texts by Dorothy Berry, Philip Deloria, John Klacsmann, Andrew Lampert, Kelly Long, Greil Marcus, Rani Singh, Philip Smith, Elisabeth Sussman.

Published by Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts / Whitney Museum of American Art, 2025
Monographs / Magic / Film & Video / Music & Sound / Counterculture