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Books by Jonas Mekas






A Dance with Fred Astaire(1st Edition)
by Jonas Mekas, Johan Kugelberg
Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 2017 by Anthology Editions
ISBN-13: 978-1-944860-09-7, ISBN: 1-944860-09-6

"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 ..."






Andy Warhol(1st Edition)
by John. Warhol: Coplans, Jonas Mekas, Calvin Tomkins, Andy Warhol, Calvin Tompkins
Hardcover, 160 Pages, Published 1970 by Little Brown & Co
ISBN-13: 978-0-8212-0397-2, ISBN: 0-8212-0397-5

"Nonfiction: Art History"






Zefiro Torna, or, Scenes from the life of George Maciunas(1st Edition)
(Fluxus)
by Jonas Mekas
28 Pages, Published 1997 by Arthouse Books
ISBN-13: 978-1-889873-00-8, ISBN: 1-889873-00-4






There Is No Ithica Idylls of Semeniskiai & Reminiscences
by Jonas Mekas, Adolfas Mekas
Paperback, 62 Pages, Published 1996 by Hallelujah Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9763967-7-2, ISBN: 0-9763967-7-7

"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 Jonas Mekas, 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 ..."






Jonas Mekas
Interviews (Conversations with Filmmakers Series)
by Jonas Mekas 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, Jonas Mekas
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 Jonas Mekas
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 Jonas Mekas
Hardcover
ISBN-13: 978-1-199-44481-3, ISBN: 1-199-44481-2






Words Apart and Others
by Jonas Mekas, Vyt Bakaitis
Paperback, 92 Pages, Published 2018 by Rail Editions
ISBN-13: 978-0-9907881-4-0, ISBN: 0-9907881-4-8

"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 Jonas Mekas
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. ..."






13 Most Wanted Men
Andy Warhol and the 1964 World's Fair: Conversations
by Hilary Ballon, Hh Nicholas Chambers, Professor Diane Di Prima, Douglas Crimp, Dick Elman, Tom Finkelpearl, Albert Fisher, Larissa Harris, Brian Frye, John Giorno, Anthony Grudin, Felicia Kornbluh, Gerard Malanga, Jonas Mekas, Timothy Mennel, Richard Meyer, Billy Name, Andy Warhol, Media Farzin
Paperback, 152 Pages, Published 2015 by Queens Museum/The Andy Warhol Museum
ISBN-13: 978-1-929641-19-2, ISBN: 1-929641-19-2

"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 ..."






Ostalgia(1st Edition)
by Massimiliano Gioni, Jarrett Gregory, Ekaterina Degot, Victor Misiano, Joanna Mytkowska, Bojana Pejic, Boris Gioni Groys, Sarah Valdez, Lisa Phillips, Jonas Mekas, Anri Sala, Andro Wekua, Judy Ditner
Paperback, 120 Pages, Published 2011 by New Museum
ISBN-13: 978-0-915557-96-7, ISBN: 0-915557-96-7

"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 ..."






Lee Ranaldo & Leah Singer
Drift
by Lee Renaldo, Leah Singer, Lea Rekow, Tom Lesser, Alan Licht, Roland Spekle, Sam Durant, Jonas Mekas
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 2006 by Plexifilm
ISBN-13: 978-1-933045-34-4, ISBN: 1-933045-34-5

""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 ..."






The Life & Times of Andy Warhol - Superstar
by Joan Agajanian Quinn, Jean Michel Basquiat, Irving Blum, Stephen Bruce, Leo Castelli, Chuck Workman, Franklyn Gottbetter, James Cady, Larry L. Green, Marilyn Lewis, Peter English Nelson, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Taylor Mead, Carl Lewis, Grace Jones, directed by Chuck Workman
Dvd, Published 2003 by Shout Factory
Multiple Formats, Color, Full Screen, Ntsc
ISBN-13: 978-0-7389-2558-5, ISBN: 0-7389-2558-6

"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 "






Flaming Creature(1st Edition)
The Life and Time of Jack Smith, Artist, Performer, Exotic Consultant
by Edward Leffingwell, J. Hoberman, Jack Smith, Carole Kismaric, Marvin Heiferman, Naylan Blake, Lawrence Rinder, Ronald Tavel, Penny Arcade, Stefan Brecht, Richard Foreman, Jonas Mekas, Susan Sontag, Jerry Tartaglia, Jane Doe
Paperback, 300 Pages, Published 1997 by Serpent's Tail
ISBN-13: 978-1-85242-429-9, ISBN: 1-85242-429-X

"As close as we have to a biography of Jack Smith"






The Legend of Maya Deren
A Documentary Biography and Collected Works : Volume I (Vol 1/Part 1 & 2)
by Jonas Mekas, Veve A. Clark, Millicent Hodson, Catrina Neiman, Hollis Melton, Francine Bailey Price
Paperback, 514 Pages, Published 1988 by Anthology Film Archives
ISBN-13: 978-0-911689-14-3, ISBN: 0-911689-14-1

"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 ..."






Robert Frank(1st Edition)
New York to Nova Scotia
by Anne W., Robert Frank, Philip Brookman, Brookman Tucker, Walker Evans, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Gotthard Schuh, Hugh Edwards, Jonas Mekas, Robert Coles, Anne Wilkes . Tucker
Hardcover, 112 Pages, Published 1986 by Bulfinch Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8212-1623-1, ISBN: 0-8212-1623-6

"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 Jonas Mekas, 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 ..."






Jonas Mekas
The Destruction Quartet 2006
by Jonas Mekas, Danius Kesminas, Jan Verwoert, Darren Knight Gallery
Paperback, 8 Pages, Published 2006
ISBN-13: 978-0-9758058-5-5, ISBN: 0-9758058-5-1



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