Published by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, 2017
Sewn bound softcover
211 pages
11×8 inches
Near Fine condition
"One of the great documents of American cinema." - J. Hoberman
Originally published in 1963 as a special issue of Film Culture, Metaphors on Vision stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema’s most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. By turns lyrical, technical, and philosophical, this is a collection to be shelved alongside the commentaries of Robert Bresson and Maya Deren, Sergei Eisenstein and Nagisa Oshima. Now out of print, this new definitive edition was published in 2017 by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry. It features a full facsimile of the publication’s original George Maciunas design as well as a corrected version of the text, overseen by P. Adams Sitney. These materials are complemented by Sitney’s introduction to the 1998 French translation of Metaphors on Vision, copious annotations, and an apparatus that meticulously tracks variations in the text across its many iterations.
Published by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, 2017
Sewn bound softcover
211 pages
11×8 inches
Near Fine condition
"One of the great documents of American cinema." - J. Hoberman
Originally published in 1963 as a special issue of Film Culture, Metaphors on Vision stands as the major theoretical statement by one of avant-garde cinema’s most influential figures, a treatise on mythopoeia and the nature of visual experience written in a style as idiosyncratic as his art. By turns lyrical, technical, and philosophical, this is a collection to be shelved alongside the commentaries of Robert Bresson and Maya Deren, Sergei Eisenstein and Nagisa Oshima. Now out of print, this new definitive edition was published in 2017 by Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry. It features a full facsimile of the publication’s original George Maciunas design as well as a corrected version of the text, overseen by P. Adams Sitney. These materials are complemented by Sitney’s introduction to the 1998 French translation of Metaphors on Vision, copious annotations, and an apparatus that meticulously tracks variations in the text across its many iterations.
