Description
Book SynopsisAn introductory guide to a prominent and expanding field of study: artists' unique contribution to the art of the moving image in the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Trade Review'David is the only person I know who has an encyclopaedic knowledge of – and a passion for – film in all its possibilities' - Steve McQueen
'An authoritative guide' - The Art Newspaper
'A stand-out in terms of understanding the conceptual threads of new cinema with visual art aesthetics and content throughout the century, and an excellent reference' - RoseLee Goldberg
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
1. The Attraction of Film
2. ‘The Music of Light’
3. ‘To Discover and To Reveal’ – The Artist’s Documentary
4. The Pleasures of Editing
5. The Conceptual Film and other phenomena
6. The Anti-Film & the Formal Film
7. The Everyday
8. The Individual Voice
9. Sustenance
