Abstract Film and Beyond

by Malcolm Le Grice and Malcolm Legrice

Book Overview

"Malcolm Le Grice, an important experimental filmmaker from England, film journalist for Studio International, and teacher ... gives us a lucid account, both historical and theoretical, of the main preoccupations of abstract filmmakers.... "Le Grice begins with a painter, Cezanne, to show how his preoccupation with pictorial space is a key to any understanding of the notion of abstraction. He goes on to discuss the Futurists' cinema, the early abstract...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262120771
• ISBN13: 9780262120777
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.