Artforum. September 08.

"In Eyes Upside Down, P Adams Sitney, who has been avant-garde cinema's most accomplished and most visible exegete for four decades, takes seriously Emerson's claims about vision and visuality in the ordering of experience and applies them to cinematic thinking, describing film as an art form that enacts the processes of the intellect constructive," writes Richard Deming. "'Cinema is an art where things are found, where meaning grows,' writes Sitney, offering a point of contact between avant-garde film and Emerson's epistemology. Given Sitney's characteristic careful attention and agile erudition, if anyone could reveal the continuity between Emerson and the diaristic, quotidian films of Jonas Mekas, for instance, or Ernie Gehr's structural masterpiece, Serene Velocity (1970), it is he."

As an online exclusive, Artforum also presents the conclusion to Sitney's book.

"To mark the New York debut of [Michael] Clark's three-part Stravinsky Project this summer at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts - his company’s first appearance in the United States since 1986 - artists Silke Otto-Knapp and Cerith Wyn Evans offer their own assessments of his importance. As an added online-only feature, artist and longtime Clark collaborator Charles Atlas recalls his work with the dancer."

Celebrating Robert Rauschenberg's "largesse in both art and life": Merce Cunningham, Barbara Rose and Branden W Joseph.

Tomasz Fudala on Anna Molska: "She is not a video artist, but rather an artist who uses video as one tool among many."

Not online but in the September issue: Michel Houellebecq on Alain Robbe-Grillet, Thomas Eaton on Kenneth Anger and Eric Rentschler on Alexander Kluge.

Posted by dwhudson at September 1, 2008 4:24 AM