The critique of this book of Patti Smith becomes contesting for Asahi and the critique in last week.
The critique contests for Asahi and Nikkei often.
It, too, is one of the pleasure of the reader.
“Just kids “Written by Patti Smith
The half the life of two artists
If seeing from now, Robert Mapplethorpe was an artist with the last generation to have believed that the “genius”exists.
The guardian angel to have partaken of the belief an ambition, i.e. to have supported them like an accomplice by is Smith of the pate of the thing of “the queen in New York punk ".
This manual is the reminiscence of the Patti who looked back to these two half the lives via approximately 20 years after Robert's death.
The figure of the artist which was dispersed to the AIDS while reading and running an art scene in New York from the end of the 1960s to the end of the 80s in the look which is greedy leaves a vivid impression.
Also, it will invite deep emotion about showing the ripeness to be formidable by the way one tells of the Patti who pictures it, too.
It is in 67, “the summer when the flower children spread a palm” that Robert who grew into the pious Catholic home of Brooklyn met Patti.
The Patti says that the relation of them who were born together in the first group in the baby boom generation seemed to be a elder sister and a younger brother and that it seemed to be twins, too.
It was a fact of one piece of androgynous existence at the person, but this have made them stand out in vanity city New York in the times when the cultural axle shifts from the politics to the sex and was the cause which was pushed up to the young putting-on celebrity to range with Andy Warhol group.
Finally, Robert is sucked to the world of the gay SM who met the most vanguard in the sexual heterodoxy then.
He liked to take a hand and to be found out and set foot on the new world by the heart and soul.
There were liberty and an ecstasy and then something solitary and which is dangerous which is keen to release a soul inside him.
In this way, he attained the peak in the art world in the 80s where he got the patron which he protects by to make kept aesthetics flower and spending all and the photograph got the power of the most vanguard.
When Robert began in the suffering becoming weak to the AIDS, the 2nd child was pregnant by the Patti and she had calmed living in the hand with the official and personal affairs, too.
The wish of the pure treasuring to pay to the two date which was “ordinary child (the just kids)”who wanders New York formerly.
But it, too, was gotten because they parted
Rikkyo St. Paul's University professor
Ikui Eiko
( It is NIshimura Junk and KOBAYASHI KAORU translation, Kawade Shobo Shinsha 2380 yen ).
▼ The author is born in 46.
The poet, the musician
It builds photographer Robert Mapplethorpe and a cooperative relationship.
It wins a National Book Award nonfiction subdivision in 2010 with this manual.
This translation is Akutagawa.