"A Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. Memories and diary entries, conversations and insights into his work sit alongside collages of beautifully reproduced postcards, newspaper cuttings, film negatives, lists, posters and photographs, envelopes and letters, book covers, telegrams, ca ..."
"Much has been written and published worldwide about Jonas Mekas' numerous films and his relentless advocacy of independent-personal-poetic cinema. But his poetry written in the Lithuanian language is celebrated only in Lithuania. Though some of Jonas' later poems were translated into French, Japanese, Polish, German, and other languages, his major work, Idylls of Semeniskiai, remains mostly unknown outside his native country. One of the ..."
Movie Journal(2nd Edition) The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971 (Film and Culture Series) by JonasMekas, Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker, Peter Bogdanovich Hardcover, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17556-2, ISBN: 0-231-17556-6
"In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential characteristics of these films into a un ..."
JonasMekas Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series) by JonasMekas Interviews Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2020 by University Press Of Mississippi ISBN-13: 978-1-4968-2922-1, ISBN: 1-4968-2922-0
66 Frames(1st Edition) by Gordon Ball, JonasMekas Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 1999 by Coffee House Press ISBN-13: 978-1-56689-082-3, ISBN: 1-56689-082-9
"Gordon Ball. MORE ON FRIENDS AND VISITORS— AND LSD Sometime after
my first few trips on LSD, I attended a ... Simon at Davidson had sworn to me in
great earnestness, "If you wear a beard, Gordon, everyone thinks you're
homosexual. ... Already I'd argued with Billy, soon after my first trip with Robert:
he'd cut into my rhapsody about the new phenomenon I was beholding with "C'
mon, Gordon, ..."
Message Ahead (Paperback) by JonasMekas Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 2019 by Rail Editions, United States ISBN-13: 978-0-9907881-5-7, ISBN: 0-9907881-5-6
"MESSAGE AHEAD is a devoted companion to the collection of poetry, WORDS APART AND OTHERS, and features twenty-one distinguished poets and critics, friends and admirers, reflecting on Mekas's pioneering contribution to contemporary art and ..."
MOVIE JOURNAL THE RISE OF A NEW AMERIC by JonasMekas Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-199-44481-3, ISBN: 1-199-44481-2
"Poetry. Translated and edited by Vyt Bakaitis. The Brooklyn Rail is excited to present a two-part publication WORDS APART AND OTHERS / MESSAGE AHEAD, from Rail Editions, which celebrates the poetry and artistic legacy of pioneering filmmaker Jonas Mekas (b.1922 Semeniškiai, Lithuania). WORDS APART AND OTHERS is translated and edited by long-time translator and poet Vyt Bakaitis, who brings poems spanning three decades of Mekas's career ..."
Film and Culture Ser. Movie Journal : The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971 by JonasMekas 448 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-54158-9, ISBN: 0-231-54158-9
"And it's a pity, for instance, that I didn't review George Kuchar's film Unstrap Me. It
had a brief run at the Bleecker, and disappeared. Nobody liked it, reviewers
dismissed it. But I thought it was one of the really beautiful films around. What
George did with Walter Gutman was so pathetically beautiful. The character that
he created I thought was one of the most original, freshest characters I have seen
in cinema in a long time. ..."
"This volume brings expert opinion and first-hand testimony to bear upon the events surrounding the creation and destruction of Andy Warhol's "Thirteen Most Wanted Men" at the 1964 New York World's Fair. The complex constellation of art, politics and gay life surrounding Warhol's mural and its painting-over comes alive in 13 interviews--with historian Hilary Ballon, critic Douglas Crimp, poet Diane di Prima, 1964 World's Fair head of tel ..."
"The word "ostalgie" emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist government. "Ostalgia" looks at the art produced in these countries--some of which did not even formally exist two decades ago--bringing together the work of more than 50 artists from 20 countries across Eastern Europe and the ..."
""Drift, " a collaboration between visual artist Leah Singer and musician and poet Lee Ranaldo of Sonic Youth, has been growing since 1991 and is documented here, at last, on DVD. While Singer manipulates films in a live improvisation, not unlike the way a DJ mixes sound, Ranaldo produces music, sounds and texts in response. "Drift's" immersive sonic and visual environment has traveled to museums, galleries and concert halls worldwide, a ..."
"An in-depth definitive lookk at one of America's pop art icons and the century's most original figures. A close look at the evolution of Warhol's work and a penetrating study of his life as observer, chronicler, catalyst, inventor of superstardom and mas "
"Jonas Mekas. Elinka, September 1930. ECOLE INTERNATIONALE DE GENEVE
9/25/1930 la grande boissiere 62 route de chene Dear Mother: I have a very very
heavy schedule and I have loads of home work so I was not able to write sooner.
I see my first impression of my roomates was wrong for ... Then we have to get
dressed & washed & afterward we undo our beds so they can be fresh and
afterward go to breakfast. We don't have fruit but we hav ..."
"Ephemera captures our curiosity. Through it, we get a glimpse into the personalities, personal moments and ponderings, and sentiments of beloved public figures. Presented here are many such glimpses, along with several longer looks, into the life of legendary photographer, Robert Frank. New York to Nova Scotia was originally published in 1986 to accompany a retrospective exhibition organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and has ..."
Movie Journal(2nd Edition) The Rise of the New American Cinema, 1959-1971 (Film and Culture Series) by JonasMekas, Gregory Smulewicz-Zucker, Peter Bogdanovich Paperback, 496 Pages, Published 2016 by Columbia University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-231-17557-9, ISBN: 0-231-17557-4
"In his Village Voice "Movie Journal" columns, Jonas Mekas captured the makings of an exciting movement in 1960s American filmmaking. Works by Andy Warhol, Gregory J. Markapoulos, Stan Brakhage, Jack Smith, Robert Breer, and others echoed experiments already underway elsewhere, yet they belonged to a nascent tradition that only a true visionary could identify. Mekas incorporated the most essential characteristics of these films into a un ..."