After Avant-Garde Film
Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation, 1992, pp. 59-73
New York: The New Museum of Contemporary Art with David R. Godine, 1992
The chapter "After Avant-Garde Film" leads the reader through a chronological survey of the development of film, identifying key conceptual and technical considerations. Beginning with the difficult definition of avant-garde, the chapter provides a thorough walkthrough of film and the anti-Hollywood directors associated with post-avant garde, modernism, and postmodernism. Surrealism, experimental film, new wave and new American cinema, post-structuralism, feminism and semiotics are all discussed as a point of development in film. leading potentially to the postmodern avant-garde.
ITEM 1992.088 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Un Chien Andalou – Salvador Dali
Rose Hobbart – Joseph Cornell
Anticipation of the Night – Stan Brakhage
Flaming Creatures – Jack Smith
Dog Star Man – Stan Brakhage
Wavelength – Michael Snow
Eureka – Ernie Gehr
Poetic Justice – Hollis Frampton