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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
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Jonas Mekas
| Editor | Inesa Brasiske, Lukas Brasiskis, Kelly Taxter |
| Publisher | Yale University Press |
| Year | 2022 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English |
| ISBN | 978-0-300-25307-8 |
| Pages | 256 |
| Weight | 1340 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Ed Halter, Melissa Ragona, Andrew Uroskie et al. |
| Type of book | Exhib'publication |
| Museum / Place | Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius |
| Article ID | art-64386 |
Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure.
Between 1950 and his death, the artist and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made more than one hundred radically innovative, often diaristic films and video works. He also founded film festivals, cooperatives, archives, and magazines and wrote film criticism and poetry. Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running is the first major publication in English on this pivotal member of the New York avant-garde scene, presenting an extensively illustrated, in-depth exploration of his radical art and restless life.
Born in rural Lithuania, Mekas made his way to New York, where he became a central figure in the overlapping realms of experimental theater, music, poetry, performance, and film. This book brings his work alive on the page with sequences of stills from film and video, photographic series and installations, and archival documents. Leading scholars examine his work and influence, and a timeline expands our understanding of his life.
