James Benning's Environments: Politics, Ecology, Duration

ISBN-13: 9781474417945 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 208 str.

Nikolaj Lubecker;Daniele Rugo

Opis

A range of international scholars highlight the thematic and formal coherence of James Benning s practice, whilst providing readers with an artistic and historical context to understand his experimental film work.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; List of Illustrations; Introduction, Nikolaj Lübecker & Daniele Rugo; Intellectual Environments; Surveying James Benning, Scott MacDonald; Utah and the Times: Governing Temporality in Deseret, John Beck; Violence and Landscape in the Films of James Benning, Nikolaj Lübecker; Material Environments; Constructing the Transversal Time-Image: Ecosophy, Immanence and Corporate ‘Land’ in James Benning’s Four Corners and California Trilogy, Colin Gardner; Men in Huts in Woods: Independence, Transcendentalism and Technology in James Benning’s Thoreau and Kaczynski Documentaries and Exhibition, Silke Panse; The Earth as Material Film: Benning’s light glance making a material-image, Felicity Colman; Perceptual Environments; A Lake-Event, Tom Conley; Defacing the Close-up, Kriss Ravetto-Biagioli; The Adventure of Patience, Daniele Rugo; Index