Alfred Leslie - the everything artist
Born in 1927, Alfred Leslie was a multidisciplinary artist by his late teens. Abstract painter, portrait painter, improvising sculptor; filmmaker (Pull My Daisy with Robert Frank, 1959), photographer, novelist and graphic novelist, he rejected the idea that he needed one style and a single point of view. In 1988, he made a terrific series of road trip drawings while driving.
Leslie began the drawings for what is now Attacked by the Heart in the early 1960s, some of which were published in Artforum in 1962, and all of which were destroyed by a fire in 1966. In 1991, he redid and enlarged upon them.
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