Art
The Society of the Spectacle - Annotated Edition by Guy Debord
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AFS PRESENTS: JEANNE DIELMAN, 23 QUAI DU COMMERCE, 1080 BRUXELLES : Austin Film Society : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
archive.org"Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles" (1975) directed by Chantal Akerman, is probably going to be one of the most unique films your eyes could feast on, and is undoubtably a pioneer of feminist cinema.
In this country ... if you’re an artist, you’re guilty of a crime: not that you’re aware, which is bad enough, but that you see things other people don’t admit are there.
Maria Popova • The Doom and Glory of Knowing Who You Are: James Baldwin on the Empathic Rewards of Reading and What It Means to Be an Artist
The earliest experience of art must have been that it was incantatory, magical; art was an instrument of ritual. (Cf. the paintings in the caves at Lascaux, Altamira, Niaux, La Pasiega, etc.) The earliest theory of art, that of the Greek philosophers, proposed that art was mimesis, imitation of reality. — Susan Sontag
In the old romance of the artist, any person who has the temerity to spend a season in hell risks not getting out alive or coming back psychically damaged. The heroic avant-gardism of French literature in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries furnishes a memorable pantheon of artists who fail to survive their trips to hell. Still, there
... See moreSusan Sontag • On Photography
"Against Interpretation"
Against Interpretation is an essay by Susan Sontag that criticizes the prevailing emphasis on interpreting and analyzing works of art, arguing for a focus on experiencing and appreciating art for its own sake.
static1.squarespace.com- “Art exposes us to the universal experience of being a meaning-making animal in a universe where meanings falter. A good definition of art, it seems to me, might be the science of making meaning-making tools.”
Garth Greenwell • Just a moment...
Bresson (on Cinema)
youtube.comAn interview conducted by some French pupils in which Bresson discusses his filmmaking methods.