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Bad Boy: An Uncensored Account of One Artist's Coming of Age

by Eric Fischl · 2013

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Traces the American artist's struggle to find his way during a period when his style was contrary to fashion, his relationship with his alcoholic mother, his struggles with addiction, and his interactions with such contemporaries as Julian Schnabel and David Salle.

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