Battcock, Gregory - Top of the Pits: A Screenplay –– Locatione (sic) 1 to 10

Battcock, Gregory - Top of the Pits: A Screenplay –– Locatione (sic) 1 to 10

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Gregory Battcock.Top of the Pits: A Screenplay –– Locatione (sic) 1 to 10. New York: Gregory Battcock, undated. Unbound facsimile of typewritten sheets. 57 sheets.  Very good.  Light edgewear and creasing. Minor soiling to cover page.  Unknown Gregory Battcock screenplay. The owner of the Continental Baths, Steve Ostrow, is hiring a piano accompanist for a show and Michael, a perhaps closeted young Juilliard student, snags the job. Not present in Battcock's papers held in the Smithsonian's Archives of American Art collection. Joseph Grigely, editor of "Oceans of Love: The Uncontainable Gregory Battcock", and a savior of Battcock's papers has said he is not familiar with this screenplay.    "Gregory Battcock (1937–1980, US) was a New York–based artist who gave up his practice as a painter to become an art critic; he wrote on Minimalism, Conceptual art, video art, and performance, and generally championed artists pushing the boundaries and definitions of contemporary art. On Christ

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