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Acute misfortune : the life and death of Adam Cullen / Erik Jensen.

Acute misfortune : the life and death of Adam Cullen / Erik Jensen.
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ISBN 9781760640873 (paperback)
Name Jensen, Erik author.
Title Acute misfortune : the life and death of Adam Cullen / Erik Jensen.
Portion of title Life and death of Adam Cullen
Published Collingwood, Vic : Black Inc., an imprint of Schwartz Publishing, 2019.
Carlton, VIC : Black Inc., 2019.
©2014.
Description 192 pages ; 21 cm.
Notes Prepublication record (machine generated from publisher information)
Contents Prologue -- Death -- Persona -- Art -- Mother -- Drugs -- Archibald -- Father -- Sex -- Court -- End.
Summary "In 2008, the artist Adam Cullen invited journalist Erik Jensen to stay in his spare room and write his biography. What followed were four years of intense honesty and a relationship that became increasingly claustrophobic. At one point Cullen shot Jensen, in part to see how committed he was to the book. At another, he threw Jensen from a speeding motorbike. The book contract Cullen used to convince Jensen to stay with him never existed. Acute Misfortune is a riveting account of the life and death of one of Australia's most celebrated artists, the man behind the Archibald Prize-winning portrait of David Wenham. Jensen follows Cullen through drug deals and periods of deep self-reflection, onwards into his court appearance for weapons possession and finally his death in 2012 at the age of forty-six. After much critical acclaim, Acute Misfortune was developed into a feature film, winning The Age Critics Award at the Melbourne International Film Festival in 2018. The story is by turns tender and horrifying: a spare tale of art, sex, drugs and childhood, told at close quarters and without judgement."--Back cover.
Donated by Chantelle Mitchell,
Subjects Jensen, Erik
Cullen, Adam, -- 1965-2012
Art, Modern -- Australia -- 21st century
Art, Australian -- 21st century.
Painters, Australian -- 21st century -- Biography
Portrait painters -- Australia -- Biography
Painters -- Australia -- Biography.
Portrait painters -- Australia
Art, Modern -- Australia -- 21st century
Artists -- Australia -- Biography
Genre Biographies
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