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Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman

Philippe Vergne

4.6/5 ( ratings)

A key underground figure of Los Angeles' midcentury counterculture, Cameron created a body of visionary painting and drawing that won her equal esteem among the Californian assemblage artists and the occult world of that time. Her powerful personality led to a number of roles in key underground movies such as Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, and her features adorn the cover of the first issue of Wallace Berman's Semina. Today, her delicate melding of Surrealism and mysticism has been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists. This volume, published for an exhibition at MOCA LA, includes pieces formerly thought lost, ranging from early paintings to drawings, sketchbooks and poetry, as well as ephemera, collaborations and correspondence with individuals such as her husband, Jack Parsons , and mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Pages: 88

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cameron-Parsons Foundation/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Release: January 27, 2015

ISBN: 0692289526

ISBN 13: 9780692289525

Cameron: Songs for the Witch Woman

Philippe Vergne

4.6/5 ( ratings)

A key underground figure of Los Angeles' midcentury counterculture, Cameron created a body of visionary painting and drawing that won her equal esteem among the Californian assemblage artists and the occult world of that time. Her powerful personality led to a number of roles in key underground movies such as Kenneth Anger's Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, and her features adorn the cover of the first issue of Wallace Berman's Semina. Today, her delicate melding of Surrealism and mysticism has been rediscovered by a younger generation of artists. This volume, published for an exhibition at MOCA LA, includes pieces formerly thought lost, ranging from early paintings to drawings, sketchbooks and poetry, as well as ephemera, collaborations and correspondence with individuals such as her husband, Jack Parsons , and mythologist Joseph Campbell.

Pages: 88

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Cameron-Parsons Foundation/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Release: January 27, 2015

ISBN: 0692289526

ISBN 13: 9780692289525

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