MFJ 62 “New Books”

Fall 2015

 

As artists of all stripes embrace the moving image, and works in the medium are displayed in black boxes, white cubes and public spaces throughout the world, it is no surprise that this multi-faceted production is accompanied by a flood of publications. “New Books,” the title of this issue, is accurate: all bound, printed volumes, all recent. Of the twelve books reviewed in this issue, five were published in 2015, four in 2014 and one in 2012. But the set is no more than a sample.

On the other hand, the variety of subjects and stylistic approaches in the set of books is representative of a broad, exciting and explosive field. Four are anthologies, eight by single authors. They address works from specific regions, provide historical studies and explorations of theoretical issues. The writing ranges from casual and personal to precise and academic. While unified in their consideration of topics central to artists’ cinema, the books exhibit intensive contrast in their methods and aims. Richly defiant of easy categorization, these books are dynamic and packed with insights, qualities reflected in the short reviews that comprise this issue.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

The Editors
Introduction

 

REVIEWS

ART, CINEMA, EXHIBITIONS, EVENTS

Vera Dika
The Light Of Day/The Heat Of Night: Peggy Ahwesh at Times Square

Steven Jacobs
Mark Lewis’ Invention at the Louvre

Jihoon Kim
Factory Complex: The Post-Vérité Turn of Korean Experimental Documentary

Maureen Nappi
Pinky’s Rule: Amy Sillman and Charles Bernstein

Simon Payne
Malcolm Le Grice’s “No Idea,” Richard Saltoun Gallery, London

Rachel Stevens
Hito Steyerl at Artists Space (Notes and Citations)

Rachel Valinsky
Séance Fiction, The Banff Centre, Alberta

BOOKS

Andrzej Jachimczyk
The Struggle for Form Perspectives on Polish Avant-garde Film 1916-1989

Juan Carlos Kase
Cinema by Other Means

Sarah Keller
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980

Chris Kennedy
Installation and the Moving Image

Laura U. Marks
The Practice of Light: A Genealogy of Visual Technologies from Prints to Pixels

Birgit Schneidmueller
TRANSMEDIA FRICTIONS: The Digital, the Arts, and the Humanities

Angela Dalle Vacche
Color and Empathy: Essays on Two Aspects of Film

Grahame Weinbren
Motion(less) Pictures: The Cinema of Stasis

Alison Wielgus
TV Museum: Contemporary Art and the Age of Television

Michael Zryd
Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art

 

ARTICLES

John Powers
Glancing Outward: Notes on the New Historicist Film Parts III & IV (Notes and Citations)

 

COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS

Peggy Ahwesh
Mark Lewis
Hito Steyerl
Amy Sillman & Charles Bernstein
John Vicario
Jenny Okun
Walther Ruttmann
Claire Dennis
Fern Silva

 

ARTIST PAGES

Bruce McClure
EXCRESCENCE ON TIME

 

INTERVIEWS

Josh Guilford
In All Directions: An Interview with Fern Silva

 

IN MEMORIAM

Nicky Hamlyn
A. L. Rees 1949–2014

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Weight 10 oz
Dimensions 7 × 10 in
Publication Date

15 October 2015, Fall Issue

Pages

96

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