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Oskar Fischinger 1900-1967 : experiments in cinematic abstraction / edited by Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam : EYE Filmmuseum ; Los Angeles : Center for Visual Music, 2013.Description: 240 p. : col. ; 27 cmISBN:
  • 9789071338007
  • 9071338002
Other title:
  • Experiments in cinematic abstraction
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43 FIS
Contents:
Preface / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction and Acknowledgements / Cindy Keefer -- Oskar Fisching : an introduction / Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel, Cindy Keefer -- Autobiography / Oskar Fischinger -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger and the European artistic context / Jean-Michel Bouhours -- Wax slicing machine -- Oskar Fischinger in Germany, 1900 to 1936 / Jeanpaul Goergen -- Oskar Fischinger, modernist painter / Ilene Susan Fort -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger/Wassily Kandinsky : where abstraction and comics collide / Esther Leslie -- The composer of the future and the absolute sound film / Oskar Fischinger -- Images from Ornament sound experiments -- A timetable and music : a visit to Oskar Fischinger\'s color-sound animated film studio / Author unknown -- Fischinger\'s early color experimentation / Cindy Keefer -- My statements are in my work / Oskar Fischinger -- About Motion painting Nr. 1 / Oskar Fischinger -- Images --
The visions of Oskar Fischinger and Alexander László in 1935/36 about a new way of visualizing music / Jörg Jewanski -- The spirit inside each object : John Cage & Oskar Fischinger / Richard H. Brown -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Synthetic sound machine / Joseph Hyde -- Fischinger\'s scores : new perspectives on his approach to music / Joseph Hyde -- Essay without words : Motion painting no. 1, insight, and the ornament / James Tobias -- Fischinger misconstrued : visual music does not equal synesthesia / Paul Hertz -- Optical expression : Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and visual music : an edited guide to the key concerns / Cindy Keefer -- Images -- The Lumigraph : dancing with your hands / an interview with Barbara Fischinger by Cindy Keefer -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Raumlichtkunst / Cindy Keefer.
Summary: The German-American avant-garde filmmaker Oskar Fischinger is one of the main protagonists in the history of animation and abstract cinema. Fischinger created a new abstract film language that parallels and interacts with musical qualities. From the 1920s onward this pioneer of visual music coupled abstract images with music and rythms, long before the arrival of music video. Fishinger was a true virtuoso in the way he created highly complex animated films that develop dynamic rhythms, harmonies, and counterpoints. This monograph explores the position of Fishinger\'s work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, and his influence on today\'s filmmakers, artists and animators.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Standard Loan LSAD Library Main Collection 791.43 FIS (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 39002100561993

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This new monograph explores the position of Fischinger's work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, the Lumigraph, visual music theories, and his influence on today's filmmakers, artists and animators. The book also contains previously unpublished documents including texts by Fischinger himself, and unshot animation drawings. Essays compiled and commissioned by editor Keefer include new research and texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jeanpaul Goergen, Ilene Susan Fort, James Tobias, Cindy Keefer, Richard Brown, Joseph Hyde, Paul Hertz, Joerg Jewanski, and more.

This exhibition is co-organized by EYE Filmmuseum and Center for Visual Music, and co-curated by EYE\'s Director of Exhibitions Jaap Guldemond and Cindy Keefer of Center for Visual Music during December 16, 2012- March 17, 2013.

Includes bibliography (p. 229-231) and filmography (p. 227-228).

Preface / Sandra den Hamer -- Introduction and Acknowledgements / Cindy Keefer -- Oskar Fisching : an introduction / Jaap Guldemond, Marente Bloemheuvel, Cindy Keefer -- Autobiography / Oskar Fischinger -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger and the European artistic context / Jean-Michel Bouhours -- Wax slicing machine -- Oskar Fischinger in Germany, 1900 to 1936 / Jeanpaul Goergen -- Oskar Fischinger, modernist painter / Ilene Susan Fort -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger/Wassily Kandinsky : where abstraction and comics collide / Esther Leslie -- The composer of the future and the absolute sound film / Oskar Fischinger -- Images from Ornament sound experiments -- A timetable and music : a visit to Oskar Fischinger\'s color-sound animated film studio / Author unknown -- Fischinger\'s early color experimentation / Cindy Keefer -- My statements are in my work / Oskar Fischinger -- About Motion painting Nr. 1 / Oskar Fischinger -- Images --

The visions of Oskar Fischinger and Alexander László in 1935/36 about a new way of visualizing music / Jörg Jewanski -- The spirit inside each object : John Cage & Oskar Fischinger / Richard H. Brown -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Synthetic sound machine / Joseph Hyde -- Fischinger\'s scores : new perspectives on his approach to music / Joseph Hyde -- Essay without words : Motion painting no. 1, insight, and the ornament / James Tobias -- Fischinger misconstrued : visual music does not equal synesthesia / Paul Hertz -- Optical expression : Oskar Fischinger, William Moritz and visual music : an edited guide to the key concerns / Cindy Keefer -- Images -- The Lumigraph : dancing with your hands / an interview with Barbara Fischinger by Cindy Keefer -- Images -- Oskar Fischinger\'s Raumlichtkunst / Cindy Keefer.

The German-American avant-garde filmmaker Oskar Fischinger is one of the main protagonists in the history of animation and abstract cinema. Fischinger created a new abstract film language that parallels and interacts with musical qualities. From the 1920s onward this pioneer of visual music coupled abstract images with music and rythms, long before the arrival of music video. Fishinger was a true virtuoso in the way he created highly complex animated films that develop dynamic rhythms, harmonies, and counterpoints. This monograph explores the position of Fishinger\'s work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, and his influence on today\'s filmmakers, artists and animators.

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