#012 David Shapiro (b.1947), Baudelaire, Rimbaud Attacked.

DAVID SHAPIRO (US, 1947)

Baudelaire, Rimbaud Attacked

2005

Unique laser print collage

30.5 x 35.6 cm / 12 x 14 in 

Signed on verson and agin on back of frame

Acquired directly from the artist

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David Shapiro is an American poet, literary critic, and art historian. He has written some twenty volumes of poetry, literary, and art criticism. He was first published at the age of thirteen, and his first book was published when he was just eighteen. 

Having previously taught at Columbia (in the Department of English and Comparative Literature), Princeton University, and Brooklyn College. Shapiro teaches poetry and literature at Cooper Union and is currently the William Paterson professor of Art History at William Paterson University.

He achieved notoriety during the 1968 student uprising at Columbia University in 1968 when he was photographed sitting behind the desk of President Grayson L. Kirck wearing dark glasses and smoking a cigar; Shapiro later described the cigar as "horrible".