Film Culture. No. 30. Fall 1963
New York: Film Culture, 1926. Quarto, publisher's stapled corrugated cardboard wraps with die cut circle to upper wrap and original printed wraparound band mounted.
Issue 30 of independent, avant-garde film magazine Film Culture, devoted entirely to experimental filmmaker Stan Brakhage's monograph Metaphors On Vision, with the covers designed by Fluxus artist George Maciunas. Film Culture was founded by Lithuanian-American godfather of avant-garde cinema Jonas Mekas and his bother Adolfas in 1954 and ran until '96, publishing 79 issues in all. Credited for redefining cinema culture in the US, the seminal periodical provided information on, interviews with, and manifestos by international auteurs, film reviews, coverage of contemporary artistic movements, and meticulously curated indexes (of authors, subjects, titles, films, and illustrations). A visionary avant-gardist and key figure in cinematic modernism, Brakhage produced nearly four-hundred films and authored eight books on film theory between 1952 and his death in 2003. According to the Harvard Film Archive, Metaphors On Vision is "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. By turns lyrical, technical, and philosophical, [it is a work] to be shelved alongside the commentaries of Robert Bresson and Maya Deren, Sergei Eisenstein and Nagisa Oshima." Illustrated with black-and-white photos and drawings; edited, and with an introduction, by P. Adams Sitney. Some soiling and edgewear to fragile wraps. Very good. Item #12213
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