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Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows

Leonard Cohen, Cohen, Leonard

Inside His Archive

Barcode 9781636810911
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Release Date: 13/04/2023

Genre: Entertainment & The Arts
Sub-Genre: Art & Photography
Label: DelMonico Books/D.A.P.
Contributors: Jim Shedden (Edited by), Julian Cox (Edited by), Michael Petit (Interviewee), Laura Cameron (Text by), Joan Angel (Text by), Robert Kory (Afterword by), Alan Light (Text by)
Language: English
Publisher: Distributed Art Publishers

Inside His Archive
Previously unseen journals, letters, sketches and more from the vast personal archive of Leonard Cohen Published with Art Gallery of Ontario.Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen’s personal archive provide fresh insight into the artist’s creative pursuits and the arc of his career over six decades. Aware from an early age that he was destined to make a mark on this world, Cohen preserved an expansive collection of letters, journals, manuscripts, sketches and records. Together, they provide a rich visual road map to his evolution as a poet and songwriter.The first publication to present the holdings of the Leonard Cohen Family Trust, Everybody Knows: Inside His Archive immerses readers in the many facets of Cohen’s creative life. Images of rare concert footage and archival materials, including musical instruments, notebooks, lyrics and letters, are featured alongside photographs, drawings and digital art created by Cohen across several decades.Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) was a Canadian poet, singer-songwriter and novelist. Born and educated in Montreal, Cohen began his artistic career in 1956 with the publication of his first book of poetry, Let Us Compare Mythologies. Over his long and productive career, he published two novels, The Favourite Game (1963) and Beautiful Losers (1966), and numerous books of poetry, including Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs (1993). He recorded more than a dozen music albums, and numerous tribute albums have celebrated his songs in various languages. He died in Los Angeles in 2016 and was secretly buried in Montreal a few days later.