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Optic Antics
. Ed(S): Pierson, Michele; James, David E.; Arthur, Paul
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Description for Optic Antics
This volume gathers many of the best known writers on the avant-garde from three continents to write on the cinema of Ken Jacobs, who is arguably the most important living experimental filmmaker. Editor(s): Pierson, Michele; James, David E.; Arthur, Paul. Num Pages: 312 pages, 48 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; APFA; APFB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 260 x 184 x 23. Weight in Grams: 770.
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists ... Read more
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of the permanent collections at MoMA and the Whitney, and his work has been celebrated in Europe and the U.S. While his importance is well-recognized, this is the first volume dedicated entirely to him. It includes essays by prominent film scholars along with photographs and personal pieces from artists ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Number of Pages
312
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195384970
SKU
V9780195384970
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About . Ed(S): Pierson, Michele; James, David E.; Arthur, Paul
Michele Pierson is on the faculty of the Film Studies Department at King's College London. She is the author of Special Effects: Still in Search of Wonder. David E. James is on the faculty of the School of Cinematic Arts at the University of Southern California. He is the author of Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the Sixties ... Read more
Reviews for Optic Antics
Above all else, Optic Antics has the rare distinction?
characteristic of Jacob's filmmaking itself?of being at once philosophically intricate and ludicrously fun.Film Comment
The contributors to Optic Antics are to be congratulated for chronicling the work of the artist Ken Jacobs and providing insightful interpretations of his extraordinary and multifaceted contributions to the art of the moving image. ... Read more
characteristic of Jacob's filmmaking itself?of being at once philosophically intricate and ludicrously fun.Film Comment
The contributors to Optic Antics are to be congratulated for chronicling the work of the artist Ken Jacobs and providing insightful interpretations of his extraordinary and multifaceted contributions to the art of the moving image. ... Read more