Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975 (1979)
Filed under catalogue | Tags: · abstract cinema, avant-garde, experimental film, film, film history
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)Don Miller: “B” Movies: An Informal Survey of the American Low-Budget Film, 1933-1945 (1973)
Filed under book | Tags: · 1930s, 1940s, film, film history
“Charlie Chan gave nuggets of Oriental wisdom to his number one son? Ann Miller tap-danced in front of cardboard backdrops? Tarzan swung through the trees? The sound of the Whistler echoed in the dark? Abbott and Costello joined the army? Andy Hardy faced his father? Sherlock Holmes found the vital clue? A producer named Val Lewton sent shivers down your spine?
From the beginning of sound to the start of the television era, Hollywood turned out thousands of low-budget “B” movies. Some were simply awful, most were pretty good, and not a few reached greatness. Don Miller, one of the most notable of movie experts, has written a superlative survey of this neglected facet of Hollywood’s golden age-a brilliant history of the studios, producers, directors, performers and films that made “B” stand for beautiful in the memory of every movie buff.” (from the back cover)
Publisher Curtis Books, New York, 1973
The Curtis Film Series
350 pages
PDF (126 MB, updated on 2016-12-23)
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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