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  • Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art

    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

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  • Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Av

    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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  • Two films by Owen Land

    "TWO FILMS BY OWEN LAND features the illustrated scripts to the films Wide Angle Saxon and On the Marriage Broker Joke, complete with detailed footnotes that untangle their elaborate web of references. Reaching far beyond the two films alluded to in the title, it also includes a new interview, annotated filmography and recent essays by the artist.

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  • History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema

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  • The Undercut Reader: Critical Writings on Artists\' Film and Vid

    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

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  • Avant-Garde Film: Forms, Themes and Passions

    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.

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  • The British Avant-garde Film: 1926-95 - An Anthology of Writings

    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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  • Video art

    Rush\'s comprehensive volume gamely attempts to fill that void. Engagingly written, exhaustively researched and filled with hundreds of images of video works and installations, the book combines a trenchant historical overview with a more focused thematic

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  • American Magus - Harry Smith - A Modern Alchemist

    The films, paintings, and recordings of Harry Smith (1923-91) pay tribute to his genius. Filmmaking, painting, anthropology, musicology, and the occult?his knowledge of each was encyclopedic and firsthand. As might befit a man of such varied interests, his circles of friends were large and, for the most part, wholly independent. This work demonstrates how differently Smith appeared to friends from each circle, offering personal recollections that present a multidimensional, largely contradictory picture of the man.

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  • A Line Of Sight: American Avant-Garde Film Since 1965

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