John Smith: Film and Video Works, 1972-2002
A monograph on the film-maker John Smith. Smith\'s unique visual and literary vocabulary has developed through some forty films, videos and installations.
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A monograph on the film-maker John Smith. Smith\'s unique visual and literary vocabulary has developed through some forty films, videos and installations.
The past three decades have seen the rapid and vibrant growth of video art in Britain, but there has been little detailed analysis or critical recognition of this work. This book attempts to redress this imbalance by bringing together a collection of essa
Lauren Rabinovitz has created the first feminist social history of the North American avant-garde cinema.Focusing on Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, and Joyce Wieland, Rabinovitz illustrates how women used bold physical images to enhance their work and how ea
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The Undercut Reader is a collection of writing and visual works drawn from Undercut, the only U.K. magazine dedicated to artists\' film and video between 1980 to 1990, combined with newly commissioned articles by leading critics in the field. Undercut cri
Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions examines the variety of concerns and practices that have comprised the long history of avant-garde film. It covers the developments of experimental filmmaking since the modernist explosion in the 1920s in Europe through to the Soviet film experiments, the American Underground cinema, the French New Wave, structuralism and contemporary gallery work of the young British artists.
The book draws together writings by film-makers, theorists, critics and curators who over the past 70 years have been engaged with film not only as a form of art practice, but also as a subservice means of representing British society itself, and as a per
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