Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger - Softcover

Moritz, William

9780861966349: Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0861966341 ISBN 13: 9780861966349

Publisher: John Libbey Cinema and Animation, 2004

As early as 1920 Oskar Fischinger was experimenting with cinematic techniques in painting. Some would argue he was the first to produce art that resembles current music videos. William Moritz traces his life and work in this heavily illustrated biography.

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Review:

"At last! A full biography of Oskar Fischinger, arguably the greatest and the most influential artist of abstract or 'absolute' cinema. This informative book, written with insight and candor by film historian Dr. William Moritz, is an important contribution to our knowledge of alternative filmmaking seen through the life and art of a unique visionary" John Canemaker, Professor/Director Animation Studies, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

Synopsis:

The late Dr William Moritz's long-awaited, definitive biography of Oskar Fischinger is the result of over 30 years of research on this visionary abstract filmmaker and painter. In addition to Moritz's comprehensive biography, it includes numerous photographs in colour and black and white (many never before published), statements by Fischinger about his films, a newly created extensive filmography, and a selected bibliography. "Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. If he is less well known than some of the other major artists, it is precisely because he was buffeted about by the wars, Nazism, the communist witch-hunts and other phenomena of his century. Here is a glimpse of his life and works " - William Moritz.

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