2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II

CONNER, Bruce

ISBN 10: 0935640614 / ISBN 13: 9780935640618

Published by Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, 1999

About this Item

First edition. Hardcover. 269 pages. Exhibition catalog for a show that ran October 9, 1999 through January 2, 2000 at the Walker Art Center and then traveled to three other locations. Features a foreword by Kathy Halbreich, and essays by Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss, and Bruce Jenkins. Includes numerous illustrations, a checklist, list of previous exhibitions, a selected bibliography, filmography, a selected film bibliography, and an index. A very good copy in cloth covered boards with a black and with some bumping to the corners. No dust jacket as issued.

Seller Inventory # 211522

Bibliographic Details

• Title: 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II
• Publisher: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
• Publication Date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0935640614
• ISBN 13: 9780935640618
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 6.25 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Monographs

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Synopsis

Bruce Conner (1933-2008) first came to prominence in the late 1950s as a leader of the assemblage movement in California. Conner had close ties with poets of the San Francisco Renaissance (particularly Michael McClure) as well as with artists such as Wallace Berman, George Herms, Jess and Jay DeFeo. Conner's use of nylon stockings in his assemblages quickly won him notoriety, and saw his work included in Peter Selz's classic 1961 Art of Assemblage show at MoMA. Around this time, Conner also turned to film-making, and produced in swift succession a number of short films that helped to pioneer the rapid edit and the use of pop music among independent film-makers. Conner's innovative editing techniques and decidedly dark vision of American culture laid the foundation for later Hollywood directors such as Dennis Hopper (a friend and collaborator of Conner's, who frequently acknowledged his influence) and David Lynch. A long overdue and significant addition to the understanding of twentieth-century American art and cinema, 2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II represents the most comprehensive book to date on Conner's work from the 1950s to the present. The authors elucidate Conner's work in film, assemblage, drawing, printmaking, collage,and photograms, as well as his more ephemeral gestures, actions, protests and "escapes" from the art world. This beautifully designed clothbound monograph is a landmark publication for anyone interested in contemporary art, film, culture and the Beat era.