FOL Fall Author Series: Meet Eric Fischl

The Friends of the Library presents artist Eric Fischl on Tuesday, December 10 at 7:30 pm, author of Bad Boy: My Life
On and Off the Canvas. In library's Lapham Meeting Room. 

Renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a
penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and
his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive
New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and
controversial paintings as “Bad Boy” and “Sleepwalker”, Fischl joined the front
ranks of America artists, in a high-octane downtown art scene that included
Andy Warhol, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, and others. It was a world of
fashion, fame, cocaine and alcohol that for a time threatened to undermine all
that Fischl had achieved.  “Bad Boy” takes the reader on a roller coaster
ride through the passion and politics of the art world as it has rarely been
seen before. This event co-sponsored with the library’s Art Adivsory Council.