Title: A history of experimental film and video : from the canonical avant-garde to contemporary British practice /
Authors: Rees, A. L.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan ; British Film Institute,
Year: 2011
Subjects: Experimental films History and criticism.; Experimental films Great Britain History and criticism.
Abstract: "This new edition covers the history 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"--
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction -- Sitting the Avant-Garde -- Vision Machine -- Time Base -- Point of View -- Modernisms -- PART I: TTHE 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 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.