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The (Moving) Pictures Generation

The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film

By: V. Dika

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The (Moving) Pictures Generation

The Cinematic Impulse in Downtown New York Art and Film

By: V. Dika

Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.

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Springer

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1137118512

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9781137118516

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

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Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

The reuse of images, plots and genres from film history has become prominent in contemporary culture. In this study, Vera Dika explores this phenomenon from a broad range of critical perspectives, examining works of art and film that resist the pull of the past. Dika provides an in-depth analysis of works in several media, including performance, photography, Punk film, and examples from mainstream American and European cinema. Proclaiming the renewed importance of the image and of genre, she investigates works as diverse as Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills, Amos Poe's The Foreigner, Terence Malick's Badlands, and Francis Ford Coppola's One from the Heart. Her study positions avant-garde art work within the context of contemporary mainstream film practice, as well as in relationship to their historical moment.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521016312

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9780521016315

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls

Traces of the Body, Gender, and History

By: Vera Dika

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The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls

Traces of the Body, Gender, and History

By: Vera Dika

In this book, Vera Dika rewrites the story of the Pictures Generation from the perspective of the Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center in Buffalo, NY. Her work is based on interviews with living artists, archival research, and personal collections, including films, videotapes, and sound recordings. At once aesthetic, cultural, and political, this renewed perspective asks new questions and rewrites past assumptions about the artists’ work. The legendary members of the East Coast Pictures Generation emerged at Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center in Buffalo in the mid-1970s. These young people had started Hallwalls, an artist-run organization that invited artists from a variety of mediums to show their work. It also featured productions by the founding members themselves: Robert Longo, Charles Clough, Cindy Sherman, Nancy Dwyer, and Michael Zwack. The works discussed in the volume include performance, video, films, painting, music, and literature, and have been chosen because of the way they foreground states of the body in relationship to conditions of their medium. As a distinguishing feature of Hallwalls artists’ work, the practice uses these traces to make metaphors on the process of mechanical reproduction itself. The Hallwalls artists’ work also gives testament to Buffalo and to New York City, the cities that formed their historical contexts. This book will be of interest to scholars working in art history, performance studies, film studies, and gender studies.

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Taylor & Francis

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1000895009

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9781000895001

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

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The Uses of Nostalgia

By: Vera Dika

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Book's by Vera Dika

The (Moving) Pictures Generation

The (Moving) Pictures Generation

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls

The Pictures Generation at Hallwalls

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film

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