Agnès Varda: tales of images


A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, an indefatigable experimenter and manipulator of audiovisual materials, and more recently a brilliant creator of exhibitions and installations, Varda succeeded in interpreting the changes of a rapidly transforming world, al¬ways open to encounters with others and to social, aesthetic, and technological innovations. Sustained by an insatiable, encyclopedic passion for images, and by the spirit of a gatherer-glaneuse who knows how to transform the archive into a living entity, an inexhaustible generator of new stories and inventions, her work astonishes with its thematic and formal richness, while retaining an unmistakable "Varda style". The essays collected in this book, while seeking to place Varda's work within its contemporary context, also aim to trace her potential legacy. They bring together scholars who have explored the ways in which Varda engaged with other media and artistic forms, constantly in a state of hybridization.

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Agnès Varda: tales of images


A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, an indefatigable experimenter and manipulator of audiovisual materials, and more recently a brilliant creator of exhibitions and installations, Varda succeeded in interpreting the changes of a rapidly transforming world, al¬ways open to encounters with others and to social, aesthetic, and technological innovations. Sustained by an insatiable, encyclopedic passion for images, and by the spirit of a gatherer-glaneuse who knows how to transform the archive into a living entity, an inexhaustible generator of new stories and inventions, her work astonishes with its thematic and formal richness, while retaining an unmistakable "Varda style". The essays collected in this book, while seeking to place Varda's work within its contemporary context, also aim to trace her potential legacy. They bring together scholars who have explored the ways in which Varda engaged with other media and artistic forms, constantly in a state of hybridization.

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Agnès Varda: tales of images

Agnès Varda: tales of images

Agnès Varda: tales of images

Agnès Varda: tales of images

Overview



A pioneer of the Nouvelle Vague, an indefatigable experimenter and manipulator of audiovisual materials, and more recently a brilliant creator of exhibitions and installations, Varda succeeded in interpreting the changes of a rapidly transforming world, al¬ways open to encounters with others and to social, aesthetic, and technological innovations. Sustained by an insatiable, encyclopedic passion for images, and by the spirit of a gatherer-glaneuse who knows how to transform the archive into a living entity, an inexhaustible generator of new stories and inventions, her work astonishes with its thematic and formal richness, while retaining an unmistakable "Varda style". The essays collected in this book, while seeking to place Varda's work within its contemporary context, also aim to trace her potential legacy. They bring together scholars who have explored the ways in which Varda engaged with other media and artistic forms, constantly in a state of hybridization.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788869774935
Publisher: Mimesis
Publication date: 06/25/2025
Pages: 194
Product dimensions: 5.50(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Luca Malavasi is Associate Professor at the University of Genoa, where he teaches History and Analysis of Film and Cinema and Visual Culture. His work primarily fo- cuses on film history and theory, contemporary cinema, and visual culture. His pub- lications include: Il linguaggio del cinema (2019), Dalla parte delle immagini. Temi di cultura visuale (with B. Grespi, 2022), Pianeta Varda (eds. with Anna Masecchia, 2022). Il cinema contemporaneo. Caratteristiche, identità culturale, esperienza (ed., 2024), Christopher Nolan (ed., 2024).

Anna Masecchia is Associate Professor at the University of Florence, where she teaches Film History, Film Analysis and Cinema and Visual Culture. Her work fo- cuses on film history and theory, intermediality and visual culture, adopting primarily the Gender Studies perspective. She recently published Agnès Varda: Les plages d'Agnes (2024), Cinema, letteratura, intermedialità (eds. with G. Carluccio, S. Ri- mini, 2023), Pianeta Varda (eds. with Luca Malavasi, 2022).
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