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Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition.
In this book A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its post-modern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse.
This is the first major history of avant-garde film and video to be published in more than twenty years. Ranging from Cezanne and dada, via Cocteau, Brakhage and Le Grice, to the new wave of British video artists in the 90s, this remarkable study will introduce a generation of new readers to avant-garde film as well as provoking students and specialists to further reflection and debate.
| Acknowledgments | ||
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| Introduction | 1 | |
| Pt. 1 | The canonical avant-garde | 15 |
| Origins of the moving image (1780-1880) | 15 | |
| Photography | 17 | |
| Art and the avant-garde: summary 1909-20 | 19 | |
| The cubists | 21 | |
| Primitives and pioneers (1880-1915) | 25 | |
| Futurists | 26 | |
| Abstract film | 28 | |
| The comic burlesque | 29 | |
| The Art Cinema and its circuit | 30 | |
| Cine-poems and lyric abstraction | 33 | |
| Origins of abstract film | 35 | |
| The absolute film | 37 | |
| Cubism and poular film | 40 | |
| Dada and surrealist film | 41 | |
| The French avant-garde 1924-32 | 45 | |
| Voice and vision in the pre-war avant-garde | 47 | |
| Transition: into the 1930s and documentary | 50 | |
| Reviewing the first avant-garde | 53 | |
| Origins of the post-war avant-garde | 56 | |
| Underground | 62 | |
| Two avant-gardes (mark 1)? | 70 | |
| Structural | 72 | |
| Pt. 2 | Britain, 1966-98 | 77 |
| English structuralists | 77 | |
| Primitives and post-structuralists | 83 | |
| Video stirs | 87 | |
| Art and politics | 90 | |
| A cinema of small gestures | 93 | |
| Rebel waves | 96 | |
| Art Cinema's odd couple: Derek Jarman and Peter Greenaway | 98 | |
| New pluralism | 103 | |
| Black British | 105 | |
| Electronic arts | 107 | |
| yBa | 108 | |
| 'Where are we now?' | 111 | |
| Points of resistance | 113 | |
| Notes | 121 | |
| Bibliography | 146 | |
| Index | 150 |
Overview
Avant-garde film is almost indefinable. It is in a constant state of change and redefinition.
In this book A.L. Rees tracks the movement of the film avant-garde between, on the one hand, the cinema, and, on the other hand, modern art (with its post-modern coda). But he also reconstitutes the film avant-garde as an independent form of art practice with its own internal logic and aesthetic discourse.
This is the first major history of avant-garde...