In this thought-provoking work, Stuart D. Hobbs traces the avant garde from its origins to its eventual appropriation by a conservative political agenda, consumer culture, and the institutional world of art.
Now P. Adams Sitney has revised the book, adding a new chapter that brings his discussion of the principle genres and the major filmmakers up to the year 2000.
Visionary Film: The American Avant-garde
The prose here is no longer critical but novelistic, like Proust, Barthes CRITICAL himself remarks, leaning over one day to take off his boots, and suddenly PERFORMANCE remembering "his grandmother's true face" (CL, 70).
Regarded as one of the founders of the postwar American independent cinema, Maya Deren was a poet, photographer, ethnographer and filmaker. These essays examine Deren's writings, films, and legacy from a variety of perspectives.
Constituting a first attempt to locate Smith and his diverse endeavors within the history of avant-garde art production in twentieth-century America, the essays in this volume reach across Smith's artistic oeuvre.
Skyscraper Primitives: Dada and the American Avant-garde, 1910-1925
One need lookno further than the arts pages of newspapers and magazines. ... In additionto the nearly twodecadeold "Next Wave Festival" at BAM, New York boasts halfadozen annual fringetype festivals that have become "events" and tourist ...
See especially " The Montage Film , " Movie Makers ( February 1930 ) , reprinted in The Compound Cinema : The Film Writings of Harry Alan Potamkin , ed . Lewis Jacobs ( New York : Teachers College Press , 1977 ) , pp .
This book will be invaluable to students and specialists in American studies, architecture, art history and visual culture.