Scrapbook of the Sixties: Writings 1954–2010

This book is a collection of published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker, writer, poet, and cofounder of the Anthology Film Archives in New York. Mekas became the barometer of the New York art scene and a pioneer of American avant‑garde cinema. He conducted numerous interviews with artists like Andy Warhol, Susan Sontag, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Erick Hawkins, and Nam June Paik. Some of these now appear for the first time in his “Scrapbook of a Sixties”. Mekas's writings reveal him to be a thoughtful diarist and an unparalleled chronicles of the times.