Overview

This new edition covers thehistory of avante-garde film and video, ranging from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 1990s. The author also reconstitutes the avante-garde film as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse.

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Author:   A.L. Rees
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   BFI Publishing
Edition:   2nd ed. 2011
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.549kg
ISBN:  

9781844574377

ISBN 10:   1844574377
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   18 October 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Awaiting stock  

Table of Contents

"Acknowledgements.- Introduction to the 2nd Edition.- Preface.- Introduction.- Sitting the Avant-Garde.- Vision Machine.- Time Base.- Point of View.- Modernisms.- PART I: THE CANONICAL AVANT-GARDE.- Origins of the Moving Image (1780-1880).- Photography.- Art and the Avant-Garde: Summary 1909-20.- The Cubists.- Primitives and Pioneers (1880-1915).- Futurists.- Abstract Film.- The Comic Burlesque.- The Art Cinema and its Circuit.- Cine-Poems and Lyric Abstraction.- Origins of Abstract Film.- The Absolute Film.- Cubism and Poular Film.- Dada and Surrealist Film.- The French Avant-Garde 1924-32.- Voice and Vision in the Pre-War Avant-Garde.- Transition: into the 1930s and Documentary.- Reviewing the First Avant-Garde.- Underground.- Two Avant-Gardes (Mark 1)?.- Structural.- PART II: BRITAIN, 1966-98.- English Structuralists.- Primitives and Post-Structralists.- Video Stirs.- Art and Politics.- A cinema of Small Gestures.- Rebel Waves.- Art Cinema's Odd Couple: Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway.- New Pluralism.- Black British.- Electronic Arts.- yBa.- ""Where are we now?"".- Points of Resistance.- Conclusion: In the Gallery and on the Air.- The Migrating Frame from Film to Video.- Topologies.- The Origins of the Avant-garde and Current Practice.- Notes.- Bibliography.- Index."

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A.L. REES is a Research Tutor in Visual Communication, Royal College of Art, London.

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