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(0)Theodore Haimes
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
Barbara Morgan reveals in her own delightful stories why movement and the dance of Martha Graham became such important subjects in her photography. "When I read from the Chinese Six Canons of Painting, about 'rhythmic vitality' -- or essence of life force -- as being the artist's goal of expression, this seemed entirely natural, for it was related to my father's teaching about 'dancing atoms.' Thus the poetic mysticism of the East and the pragmatic...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
"Both the object and the idea are in varying degrees of harmony and dominance... Almost inevitably there are tensions in the picture, tensions between the outside world and the inside world. For me, a successful picture resolves these tensions without eliminating them."- Aaron Siskind, 1954 Aaron Siskind is most remembered for his imaginative photography of two-dimensional surfaces. This film surveys Siskind's work over half a century, from his social...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
A haunting and evocative film by the photographic master of mystic innuendo, Duane Michals. This film is divided into sections, some of which reproduce in Michals' well-known photographic stories, sequential images that add up to form a narrative. "The Bogeyman" is a child's nightmare in photo-animation. Did it happen, or not? Then we get to a cryptic message from the artist, as though from beyond the grave (hence the title "1939 - 1997"). We watch...
4) Brice Marden
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Undetermined
Description
After a few seconds of footage from 1968 of the artist working, this powerful film moves into 1976, providing an intimate look at the enigmatic abstract painter, Brice Marden. Shot in 16mm shortly after Marden's 1975 exhibition at the Guggenheim, this film reveals, through interviews with Marden and numerous shots of his preparations and working process, the depth of intellectual creativity behind his works. "Living on islands leads you to think in...
