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 |