Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
- ISBN-10
- 0195384970
- ISBN-13
- 9780195384970
- Category
- Art
- Pages
- 294
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2011-04-19
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press on Demand
- Authors
- David E. James, Michele Pierson, Paul Arthur
Description
This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who - with Jonas Mekas - is arguably the most important living experimental filmmaker. Jacobs is perhaps best known for his extraordinary, dual-projector NervousSystem performances, but his vast output includes shadow plays, multimedia performance films, videos, and, for the last twenty years, the perception-expanding Nervous Magic Lantern. Though he is included in the Whitney Museum's list of the hundred greatest artists of the twentieth century, and hisfilm Tom, Tom, The Piper's Son (1969-71) was recently added to the Library of Congress' national film registry, there is little scholarly material on Jacobs which is readily available to researchers.The scholars contributing are Paul Arthur, Nicole Brenez, David E. James, Branden W. Joseph, Scott MacDonald, Adrian Martin, Michele Pierson, Tony Pipolo, William Rose, Eivind Rossak, Amy Taubin, Federico Windhausen, and Michael Zryd. Shorter essays by internationally renowned artists who have beeninfluenced by Jacobs include Abigail Child, Richard Foreman, Christoph Girardet and Matthias Muller, Larry Gottheim, Lewis Klahr, Jonas Mekas, Phil Solomon, Art Spiegelman, and Fred Worden.
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