Art in Cinema: A Symposium on the Avantgarde Film

Frank Stauffacher

1947

Book

Introduction by Henry Miller
Art in Cinema Society and San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
First edition
Card wrappers (issued in a glassine jacket, not present)
104 pages
8.75"x7.75"
Cover by Bezalel Schatz

Description

Frank Stauffacher edited Art in Cinema for the first “Art in Cinema” film series, held at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1946. Among its essays is “Audio-Visual Music” by John and James Whitney, who call abstract film “an art fundamentally related to the machine” and describe a sound instrument of about 30 tuned pendulums.

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