Description

Metaphors On Vision

with annotations from P. Adams Sitney

Author/Editor: Stan Brakhage

CONTENTS

“Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective … an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception. How many colors are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of ‘Green?’” — Stan Brakhage

So begins Stan Brakhage’s (1933–2003) classic Metaphors on Vision. Originally published in 1963 by Jonas Mekas as a special issue of Film Culture—and designed by George Maciunas—it 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. Long out of print, the volume is now available in this definitive edition from Anthology Film Archives and Light Industry, featuring Brakhage’s complete text in its distinctive original layout, as well as copious annotations by scholar P. Adams Sitney.

Like a fire carrier, this newly published edition of Metaphors on Vision rekindles the very necessity of our filmmaking instincts. All that our youth so cherished is now once again ignited. Stan, the great cheerleader of the sublime, is again burning deep in our hearts and all that cinema might be has been set aflame by this stunning publication.
— Nathaniel Dorsky

Publisher: Anthology Film Archives/Light Industry (August 22, 2017)
ISBN: 0997910208
Dimensions: 8.2 x 0.9 x 10.8 inches