Between the Covers

Unbound. Photograph. Framed. Matted to 12½" x 10". Unexamined out of the frame but all indications are that it is fine. Image of Julian Beck in his hospital bed, extensively captioned and Signed by Ginsberg: "Julian Beck genius of the Living Theater in Hospital East 57th Street New York diagnosed for cancer of lining of internal organs (omentum) - he rose from this sick bed for a year to act a Tibetan dream-house[?] on video, organize his manuscripts and paintings, travel to Zurich with Nam June Paik to smoke a joint over Bakunin's grave and declaim the latter's statement, 'the State is the jail of the Human Spirit,' breaking the laws of death. 'Death is the ultimate corruption,' he said when I visited him at Medical Arts Center, June 1984, Allen Ginsberg." An arresting image.

Item #469297