Scott MacKenzie (ed.): Film Manifestos and Global Cinema Cultures: A Critical Anthology (2014)
Filed under book | Tags: · aesthetics, archive, avant-garde, cinema, colonialism, decolonization, documentary film, feminism, film, film history, gender, manifesto, museum, pornography, postcolonialism, queer, sexuality
“This is the first book to collect manifestos from the global history of cinema, providing the first historical and theoretical account of the role played by film manifestos in filmmaking and film culture. Focusing equally on political and aesthetic manifestos, Scott MacKenzie uncovers a neglected, yet nevertheless central history of the cinema, exploring a series of documents that postulate ways in which to re-imagine the cinema and, in the process, re-imagine the world.
This volume collects the major European “waves” and figures (Eisenstein, Truffaut, Bergman, Free Cinema, Oberhausen, Dogme ‘95); Latin American Third Cinemas (Birri, Sanjinés, Espinosa, Solanas); radical art and the avant-garde (Buñuel, Brakhage, Deren, Mekas, Ono, Sanborn); and world cinemas (Iimura, Makhmalbaf, Sembene, Sen). It also contains previously untranslated manifestos co-written by figures including Bollaín, Debord, Hermosillo, Isou, Kieslowski, Painlevé, Straub, and many others. Thematic sections address documentary cinema, aesthetics, feminist and queer film cultures, pornography, film archives, Hollywood, and film and digital media. Also included are texts traditionally left out of the film manifestos canon, such as the Motion Picture Production Code and Pius XI’s Vigilanti Cura, which nevertheless played a central role in film culture.”
Publisher University of California Press, 2014
ISBN 0520276744, 9780520276741
xxi+651 pages
via slowrotation
Author’s talk (video, 2017, 20 min).
Reviews: Wheeler Winston Dixon (Film International), Matthew Hunt, Bill Nichols (Film Quarterly).
PDF, PDF (updated on 2019-7-14)
Comment (0)Leslie Martin, Ben Nicholson, Naum Gabo (eds.): Circle: International Survey of Constructive Art (1937/1971)
Filed under book | Tags: · abstract art, abstraction, architecture, art, art criticism, art history, art theory, avant-garde, constructivism, painting, sculpture
This book contains work and writings by virtually all the leading architects and artists of the international constructivism of the 1930s.
First published in London, 1937.
Reprinted by Praeger Publishers, New York, 1971
viii+291 pages
in the Unlimited Edition
PDF (58 MB, no OCR)
Comment (1)Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay-Terk: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (1913) [FR, EN]
Filed under artist publishing | Tags: · abstract art, avant-garde, poetry
“La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France [Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France] is a collaborative artists’ book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. It features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist’s books as well as modernist poetry and abstract art.” (Wikipedia)
Interview with Cedrars (Michel Manoll, trans. William Brandon, 1950/1966, EN)
Publisher Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux, 1913
200 x 36 cm; folded to 10 x 18 cm
via Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MT Marcelo Gutman
View online, Portions in higher resolution (at Beinecke)
Version at British Library
PDF (2 MB)
JPG (2 MB)
MP3 (read by Vicky Messica, c1985, 54 MB, via continuo)
English translations
by Donald Wellman
by Ekaterina Likhtik