Stephen C. Foster (ed.): Hans Richter. Activism, Modernism, and the Avant-Garde (1998)
Filed under book | Tags: · abstract cinema, activism, art, art history, avant-garde, cinema
Few artists spanned the movements of early twentieth-century art as completely as did Hans Richter. Richter was a major force in the developments of expressionism, Dada, De Stijl, constructivism, and Surrealism, and the creator, with Viking Eggeling, of the abstract cinema. Along with Theo van Doesburg, László Moholy-Nagy, El Lissitzky, and a few others, he is one of the artists crucial to an understanding of the role of the arts in the reconstruction era following World War I.
Most American scholars have focused on Richter’s film work and have favored a strictly formalist approach that separates art and politics. The contributors to this book rewrite Richter’s history to include his pivotal role in the development of the early twentieth-century avant-garde and his political activism. When Richter’s work, particularly that of his earlier, European career, is viewed in its historical and political context, he emerges as an artist committed to the power of art to change the fabric of social, political, and cultural affairs.
Publisher The MIT Press, 1998
in collaboration with the University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
ISBN: 0262561298, 9780262561297
PDF (updated on 2012-7-31)
Comment (0)Some Ideas About Surfing (2010)
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · internet, surfing
A magazine.
Author’s email: jcolover at hotmail dot com
PDF (updated on 2013-11-22)
Comment (0)Victor Burgin (ed.): Thinking Photography, 2nd ed. (1982)
Filed under book | Tags: · photography
Seminal collection of essays on photography.
Contents:
The Author as Producer – Walter Benjamin
Critique of the Image – Umberto Eco
Photographic Practice and Art Theory – Victor Burgin
On the Invention of Photographic Meaning – Allan Sekula
The Currency of the Photograph – John Tagg
Looking at Photographs – Victor Burgin
Making Strange: The Shattered Mirror – Simon Watney
Photography, Phantasy, Function – Victor Burgin
Edition 2
Publisher Macmillan, 1982
Communications and culture
Volume 38 of Etudes de Radio-Television
ISBN 0333271955, 9780333271957
239 pages
PDF (updated on 2012-7-18)
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