Gerald O’Grady, Bruce Posner (eds.): Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America (1995)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · abstract cinema, avant-garde, experimental film, film, film history, united states
Catalogue for “the most comprehensive retrospective of abstract films ever mounted”, covering the period 1920-1970, curated by Bruce Posner.
With texts by Bruce Posner, Gerald O’Grady, Vlada Petric, Fernand Léger, Oskar Fischinger, Harry Smith, Raúl Ruiz, Stan Brakhage, Cecile Starr, Mary Ellen Bute, Dwinell Grant, William Moritz, Robert Haller, James Whitney, Rani Singh, Hy Hirsh, James Sibley Watson Jr., and a filmography and bibliography compiled by Bruce Posner and Sabrina Zanella-Foresi.
Publisher Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA, and Anthology Film Archives, New York, 1995
16 pages
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Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975 (1979)
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Catalogue for an exhibition held at Hayward Gallery, London, in May-June 1979, derived from a project originally conceived by Birgit Hein and Wulf Herzogenrath and shown at the Kunstverein in Cologne in the previous year.
With texts by Phillip Drummond, A.L. Rees, Birgit Hein, Wulf Herzogenrath, Malcolm Le Grice, Ian Christie, Peter Weibel, Deke Dusinberre and William Moritz.
Publisher Arts Council of Great Britain, London, 1979
ISBN 0728702002
152 pages
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Exhibition review (John McEwen, The Spectator)
PDF (low resolution)
Comment (0)Mutually: Communities of the 1970s and 1980s / Navzájem: Společenství 70. a 80. let, catalogue (2013) [EN/SK/CZ]
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · 1970s, 1980s, archive, art, art history, counterculture, czechoslovakia, film, hungary, participation, photography, video
Catalogue for an exhibition held in March-May 2013 at tranzitdisplay in Prague and The Brno House of Arts, Czech Republic, curated by Barbora Klímová, Daniel Grúň and Filip Cenek.
The selected fragments in this exhibition, borrowed from the archives of Moravian, Slovak, and Hungarian artists, reference different communities within the framework of “unofficial culture” during the period of Czechoslovak normalisation in the 1970s-80s.
Publisher tranzitdisplay, Prague, and The House of Arts, Brno, 2013
44 pages
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