Patti Smith: Strange Messenger

About this book

Impossible to categorize moving easily between the literary art and musical worlds always unpredictable and impassioned idiosyncratic musician and artist Patti Smith here presents an impressive body of visual art mostly works on paper. Bringing together approximately 60 works spanning the past 30 years Strange Messenger collects early pieces as well as new ones inspired by the September 11 2001 bombing of the World Trade Center in which Smith expresses her views about violence religion war and intolerance. This book marks the first occasion that Smiths drawings have been brought together in a single volume as well as the first publication of most of the included works.