Stan Brakhage: Metaphors on Vision - Softcover

Brakhage, Stan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997910208 ISBN 13: 9780997910209

Publisher: Anthology Film Archives/Light Industry, 2017

Synopsis

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’” So begins Stan Brakhage’s (1933–2003) classic Metaphors on Vision. Originally published in 1963 by Jonas Mekas as a special issue of Film Culture, and designed by George Maciunas, it stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema’s most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. Long out of print, the volume is now available in this definitive edition from Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, featuring Brakhage’s complete text in its distinctive original layout, as well as annotations by scholar P. Adams Sitney.

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Review

Brakhage's legacy has endured-- and with good reason: no figure of experimental film has been more maligned, yet none has been more lionized. (Erika Balson Artforum)

Edition details

• Publisher: Anthology Film Archives/Light Industry
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997910208
• ISBN 13: 9780997910209
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 211