New in the LUX Shop: Afterall 'One Work' books on Warhol, Snow, Frampton

Editorial
30 Jul 2010

We now stock three of Afterall's 'One Work' books: Andy Warhol - Blow Job, Michael Snow - Wavelength and Hollis Frampton - (nostalgia), along other material related to these artists. Read more below or head over to the LUX Shop.

Hollis Frampton - (nostalgia), by Rachel Moore.
Hollis Frampton's film (nostalgia), made in 1971, is a witty, hypnotic account of an artist's experiences as a photographer in New York City from 1959 to 1966. Long overlooked and understudied, (nostalgia) is a formal masterpiece. It emerges from a body of film that is rarely screened, with prints damaged and difficult to locate. Rachel Moore introduces a new generation to a critical moment in art history when (nostalgia) exposed the fragility and the essence of film itself.

ISBN 978-184638-001-3 Paper 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 88 pp., 18 illus. £9.95.
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Michael Snow - Wavelength, by Elizabeth Legge.
In 1966 Michael Snow made the film Wavelength, a masterful exploration of the nature of perception. Throughout the film's forty-five minutes, the camera slowly zooms from one end of a New York City loft space to its far wall, accompanied by the sound of a rising sine wave.

In this critical study, Elizabeth Legge describes Wavelength as a film of expertly managed tensions, sensuous beauty, subtle light and colour and recession into perspectival depth. Wavelength was crucial to critics' efforts to establish a vocabulary for the experimental film movement emerging a the time, and has functioned ever since as a blue screen in front of which a range of ideological and intellectual dramas have been played.

ISBN 978-1-84638-056-3, Paper 6 x 8 1/2, 112 pp., 32 colour illus. £9.95.
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Related items also available: Michael Snow, WVLNT (Wavelength For Those Who Don't Have The Time), DVD

Andy Warhol - Blow Job, by Peter Gidal.
Andy Warhol's Blow Job, made at the Factory in New York in 1964, is a masterpiece of the complexities of voyeurism and duration. The 36-minute film shows a young man apparently receiving oral sex, though the viewer only ever sees his head and shoulders - leaving the person performing the act in our imagination. Sometimes the man looks bored, sometimes as if he is thinking, sometimes as if he is aware of the camera, sometimes as if he is not. What might have been pornographic becomes an extended examination of the passing of time and the materiality of film. The silent, black-and-white film is exemplary of Warhol's works produced during the early 1960s, alongside such films as Sleep, Empire, Harlot and Couch.

In this important book, the influential film-maker and writer Peter Gidal shows how Blow Job is a film about film, about time and also about mortality. Gidal places Blow Job within a history of works by artists, including Duchamp and Velázquez, that directly affect the viewer, enacting a pattern of recognition and loss that constitutes the experience of perception itself.
- Winston Wheeler Dixon, Screening the Past, August 2009

ISBN 978-1-84638-041-9 Paper 6 x 8 1/2 inches, 112 pp., 14 illus., 2 colour. £9.95.
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