Stan Brakhage
Catalogue raisonné - Films (1952-2003)
Author(s) Emilie Vergé
Format livre broché
Year 2016
Language(s) French
Pages 419 pages
Description
American artist (1933-2003), Stan Brakhage made over 300 films on celluloid from 1952 until his death. An advocate of visionary cinema that draws its plastic and critical power from the very material of film itself, Stan Brakhage stands today as a spiritual father to an entire generation of artists.
His prolific and multifaceted work draws equally from his intimate family universe, from nature, and from the political events of his time. A master technician of cinematographic tools—the camera as well as optics and printing systems—Brakhage invented a unique cinematic form whose importance in film history has sometimes led to comparisons with Jackson Pollock in painting.
This definitive catalogue raisonné of Brakhage's work, compiled by Emilie Vergé in close collaboration with Marilyn Brakhage, is accompanied by a text from the great American art critic P. Adams Sitney, summarizing the filmmaker's trajectory.