Annette Michelson and the Radical Aspiration in American Avan... - 9783032090034

Annette Michelson and the Radical Aspiration in American Avant-Garde CinemaA Critical Anthology\nAuthor(s): Luis A. Recoder, Kenneth White\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer Nature Switzerland AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783032090034, 978-3032090034\nSynopsis\nThis critical anthology of newly commissioned essays by established and emerging scholars examines the work and legacy of Annette Michelson [tel], pioneering critic and theorist of avant-garde cinema. Michelsons insights transformed our understanding of cinema through her provocative and profoundly original analyses. As a contributor and editor for Artforum in the 1960s and early 1970s, then founding editor of the journal October, Michelson defined the terms of moving image art and its relation to painting, sculpture, and performance. Enriched by her deep, first-hand knowledge of emerging discourses of phenomenology, psychoanalysis, structuralism, and post-structuralism, Michelsons writings heral.