Where to Go, What to Do, when You Are Bern Porter: A Personal Biography - James Schevill - P... Book

Bern Porter led a big American life: Maine potato farmer turned Ivy League physicist, unwitting worker on A-Bomb, then TV and Saturn capsule researcher, achievements debouched into footlong security file, an Iliad, of mid-American repression and fears. Porter turned his wasted career into a searching aesthetics of waste—Mail Art, “Sciart” (Science + Art), and a remarkable series of “Founds,” tight Cornell-boxy collages of ads, data tables, and sly consumerist come-ons that ensure his place as one of America’s Yankee secrets, jeremiads bright as fireflies. Schevill’s got the only bio in town, but read this and change that. We can’t afford to lose our Berns.