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James Benning / edited by Barbara Pichler and Claudia Slanar.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen ; Bd. 6.Publication details: Vienna : Österreichisches Filmmuseum : SYNEMA--Gesellschaft für Film und Medien, ©2007.Description: 263 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9783901644238
  • 3901644237
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 BEN
Contents:
Taking position : Did you ever hear that cricket sound? (1971) to 3 minutes on the dangers of film recording (1975) / Claudia Slanar -- An iconography of the Midwest : 8 1/2 x 11 (1974) to Grand opera (1979) / Barbara Pichler -- Off screen space/somewhere else / James Benning (CalArts faculty) -- Milwaukee\'s finest / Sharon Lockhart -- Walking and talking / Sadie Benning (CalArts faculty) -- I\'ll sneak in the back door : installations in the art world : 1978-1985 / Claudia Slanar -- American dreams, American nightmares : Him and me (1981) to Used innocence (1988) / Barbara Pichler -- Using the Earth as a map of himself : the personal conceptualism of James Benning / Julie Ault -- Into the great wide open : North on Evers (1991) to UTOPIA (1998) / Barbara Pichler -- Reeling in Utah : the travel log trilogy / Dick Hebdige -- Looking and listening / Amanda Yates (CalArts alum) -- Landscape, history and romantic allusions : El Valley Centro (1999) to RR (2007) / Claudia Slanar -- Encyclopedia Americana : James Benning : times, places, perceptions / Volker Pantenburg -- On future arrivals of container drivers : five brief comments on one image from James Benning\'s \'California trilogy, expanded / Nils Plath -- James Benning\'s 13 lakes and ten skies, and the culture of distraction / Scott MacDonald -- James Benning, musician / Michael Pisaro (CalArts faculty) -- RR JB / Allan Sekula (CalArts faculty).
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Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.43 BEN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100560888

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

James Benning's films are among the most fascinating works in American cinema. He explores the relationship between image, text and sound while paying expansive attention to the "vernacular landscapes" of American life. This volume traces Benning's artistic career as well as his biographical journey through the U.S., from Wisconsin to the East Coast to Southern California.

With contributions by James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, Allan Sekula, Dick Hebdige, Scott MacDonald, Volker Pantenburg, Nils Plath, Michael Pisaro, Amanda Yates, Sadie Benning, Julie Ault, Claudia Slanar and Barbara Pichler.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-261).

Includes filmography (pages 244-255).

Taking position : Did you ever hear that cricket sound? (1971) to 3 minutes on the dangers of film recording (1975) / Claudia Slanar -- An iconography of the Midwest : 8 1/2 x 11 (1974) to Grand opera (1979) / Barbara Pichler -- Off screen space/somewhere else / James Benning (CalArts faculty) -- Milwaukee\'s finest / Sharon Lockhart -- Walking and talking / Sadie Benning (CalArts faculty) -- I\'ll sneak in the back door : installations in the art world : 1978-1985 / Claudia Slanar -- American dreams, American nightmares : Him and me (1981) to Used innocence (1988) / Barbara Pichler -- Using the Earth as a map of himself : the personal conceptualism of James Benning / Julie Ault -- Into the great wide open : North on Evers (1991) to UTOPIA (1998) / Barbara Pichler -- Reeling in Utah : the travel log trilogy / Dick Hebdige -- Looking and listening / Amanda Yates (CalArts alum) -- Landscape, history and romantic allusions : El Valley Centro (1999) to RR (2007) / Claudia Slanar -- Encyclopedia Americana : James Benning : times, places, perceptions / Volker Pantenburg -- On future arrivals of container drivers : five brief comments on one image from James Benning\'s \'California trilogy, expanded / Nils Plath -- James Benning\'s 13 lakes and ten skies, and the culture of distraction / Scott MacDonald -- James Benning, musician / Michael Pisaro (CalArts faculty) -- RR JB / Allan Sekula (CalArts faculty).

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Son of a Scottish shepherd and descended from minstrels, Hogg led a life that has the fictional quality Thomas Hardy was to capture later in the century in his novels of country life. After meeting Sir Walter Scott in 1802, Hogg adopted the name "Ettrick Shepherd," a pseudonym under which he published original lyrics and ballads.

In 1814 Hogg met William Wordsworth and enjoyed literary friendships in the Lake District, although he parodied the other poets' styles and mannerisms in The Poetic Mirror (1816). He married at age 50 and fathered five children, whom he tried to support by the same kind of unproductive farming at which Robert Burns had labored a generation before. Like Burns, his convivial nature and verbal talents won him a following in fashionable society, especially after the publication of his first novel, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (1824), when he was 53 years old. The first novel to explore psychological aberrations, it traces the collapse of a personality under the pressure of social conformity, native superstition, and religious excess. Since the introduction by Andre Gide to the 1947 Cresset edition, it has acquired an academic following and a new popularity. There is a James Hogg Society, founded in 1982, which publishes a newsletter.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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