Failure Biographies

Damm's distinctive style of collage transforms 1950s horror comics into true stories of artistic failure. 

One artist's quixotic quest to clone Martin Luther King, Jr. A pioneering silent film director pushed from the industry by her controlling husband. A writer who tries to write popular fiction but ends up in the avant-garde.

Featuring radical Argentinian art collective Tucumn Arde, conceptual artists Pope L. and Marta Minujn, filmmakers Alice Guy Blach and Pere Portabella, Mexican superhero Superbarrio Gmez, and more, Failure Biographies celebrates the struggles of great 20th and 21st century innovators who attempted - and failed - to change the world.