Christopher Knowles is an American poet and painter. He was born in New York City on May 4, 1959, and at an early age received a diagnosis of possible brain damage. He is often referred to as autistic. In 1976, his poetry was used by Robert Wilson for the avant-garde minimalist Philip Glass opera, Einstein on the Beach. Wilson described his discovery of the then 13-year-old Knowles, in the extended notes to the Tomato Records release of Einstein on the Beach: In early 1973 a man ... gave me an audio tape ... I was fascinated. The tape was entitled "Emily Likes the TV". On it a young man's voice spoke continuously creating repetitions and variations on phrases about Emily watching the TV. I began to realize that the words flowed to a patterned rhythm whose logic was self-supporting. It was a piece coded much like music. Like a cantata or fugue it worked with conjugations of thoughts repeated in variations...
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Works in Collection
11 works
Artifacts at the End of a Decade
Sandi Fellman
1981
Patty Hearst
Christopher Knowles
1982
Untitled ('c' Grids)
Christopher Knowles
(1988)
Untitled (Christopher Knowles, Puevfgbcure Xabjyrf)
Christopher Knowles
1980
Untitled (Davis Park, Fire Island, Skylight)
Christopher Knowles
1983
Untitled (Green Window)
Christopher Knowles
(1988)
Untitled (Like a Rolling Stone)
Christopher Knowles
(c.1981)
Untitled (My Name Is Christopher Knowles)
Christopher Knowles
c. 1980
Untitled (Sunshine Superman)
Christopher Knowles
(c .1981)
Untitled (Top 50 of 1967, Top 50 of 1968, Top 50 of 1969,...
Christopher Knowles
(c. late 1970's)
Untitled (Top 500 of All Songs)
Christopher Knowles
(c. 1980/1981)