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Radical Cinema
In Cinéma Radical, first published in French in 2008, the artist Christian Lebrat reflects on a cinema that “follows its own rules and questions the very definition of the medium.” His essays analyse the work of major film artists, including Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Marcel Duchamp, Germaine Dulac, Hollis Frampton, Ken Jacobs, Peter Kubelka, Fernand Léger, Maurice Lemaître, Man Ray, Jonas Mekas, Paul Sharits, and Michael Snow, among others.
Fag Hag
"Some girls fancy sailors, others fancy soldiers. But you, my dear, are a fag hag!" Lola Miesseroff's childhood certainly predisposed her to be a rebel. She was born in Marseilles in 1947 to immigrant parents, her mother a Russian-Jewish social worker, her father an Armenian-Russian with a sandpaper-making workshop in sheds left behind by the Americans. The family ran and lived in a nudist colony, a place where the men were allowed to be feminine, the women masculine. Hers was what she calls a "degendered" childhood: "I never suffered from identity problems. There were two genocides in my background, one Jewish, the other Armenian, and my education was Russophone, naturist and libertarian, n...
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Harald Szeemann
Born in Bern, Switzerland, in 1933, Harald Szeemann was a crucial force in identifying, exhibiting, and writing about the important new movements in postwar contemporary art. This collection of seventy-four texts from the curator’s vast body of written work—which includes essays, lectures, studio notes, reviews, interviews, correspondence, and transcripts—introduces the depth of his method, insight, and inclusive artistic interests. The pieces have been translated from German and French and collected in an informed, authoritative edition, making this the first time Szeemann’s work is accessible in English. The first two sections of this volume republish Szeemann’s anthologies Museu...
Painting Machines
This volume examines contemporary images of machines. It includes a group of international artists who paint machines in powerful images which link the need for technological mastery and power to the art-making impulse itself. Works by Lawrence Gipe, Donald Sultan, Robert Moskowitz, and Mark Tansey are included. In addition, the book presents the work of sculptors (Liz Larner, Rebecca Horn, and Rosemarie Trockel) who make painting machines -- technologically fluent moving structures that both display themselves as art, and duplicate processes of artistic production. These witty, provocative assemblages provide a postmodern critique directed not at society's reliance on technology but at artistic traditions of "genius" that both proscribe the use of technology and mimic its powerful effects.
The French Cinema Book
This thoroughly revised and expanded edition of a key textbook offers an innovative and accessible account of the richness and diversity of French film history and culture from the 1890s to the present day. The contributors, who include leading historians and film scholars, provide an indispensable introduction to key topics and debates in French film history. Each chronological section addresses seven key themes – people, business, technology, forms, representations, spectators and debates, providing an essential overview of the cinema industry, the people who worked in it, including technicians and actors as well as directors, and the culture of cinema going in France from the beginnings of cinema to the contemporary period.
Anni settanta. La Biennale di Venezia
La Biennale di Venezia attraversa gli anni settanta con una traiettoria che ne trasforma l’orientamento curatoriale. Dal conflitto ideologico innescato alla «Biennale poliziotta» del 1968 all’evocazione del rapporto tra arte e natura nel 1978, la rassegna compie una metamorfosi da cui emergono l’impostazione tematica e il ruolo dei critici militanti. Scompaiono i premi, l’ufficio vendite e le arti decorative, si mostrano videotape e performance; voci dissonanti vorrebbero abbatterne i padiglioni o renderla un organismo pervasivo, mentre l’espansione al di fuori dei Giardini si affianca all’ampliarsi delle sezioni di architettura. La sua storyline si compie tra l’innesto di condizionamenti politici e il cambiamento di gerarchie nell’ente, valicando le edizioni senza numero o il dissenso alla metà del decennio. La storia delle mostre di questa esposizione internazionale consente di creare cartografie di sguardi su protagonisti e momenti fondanti, ma anche di istituire raffronti attraverso lo specchio prismatico dell’arte contemporanea.
L'aventure hippie
De la route à l'utopie communautaire, les auteurs, journaliste et chercheur en sciences sociales, illustrent la contre-culture hippie. Musique, arts plastiques, cinéma, sexualité, drogues et mode de vie sont présentés. « Copyright Electre »
