CVM's Fischinger Pages: Selected Oskar Fischinger Bibliography - Chronological
Schneider, Rudolph. "Formspiel durch Kino," Frankfurter Zeitung 12 July 1926.
Böhme, Fritz. "Der Tanz der Linien." Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung 16 Aug. 1930.
Behm, Walther. "Abstrakte Filmstudie Nr. 5 von Oskar Fischinger (Synästhetischer Film)." Farbe-Ton-Forschungen, ed. Georg Anschütz. Vol. III. Hamburg: Meissner, 1931: 367-369.
Diebold, Bernhard. "Über Fischingerfilme: das ästhetische Wunder." Lichtbildbühne 1 June 1932.
Fischinger, Oskar. "Klingende Ornamente." Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, Kraft Und Stoff 28 July 1932. English version: Sounding Ornaments
Bohme, Fritz. "Tönende Ornamente: Aus Oskar Fischingers neuer Arbeit." Film-Kurier 30 July 1932.
Unknown. "Film Painter." Time 12 Dec 1938. Online at Time.com
Knight, Arthur. "The Small Screen." Theatre Arts 31.5 (May 1947): 1, 9-10.
Fischinger, Oskar. "My Statements are in My Work." in Art in Cinema, Frank Stauffacher, ed. San Francisco: Art in Cinema Society-San Francisco Museum of Art, 1947: 38-40. Reprint New York: Arno Press, 1968. Hosted online at Fischinger Archive.
Manvell, Roger ed. Experiment in the Film. London: Grey Walls Press, 1949. 131, 140, 198, 229-230, 233.
Fischinger, Oskar. "Véritable Creation." Le Cinéma À Knokke-Le-Zoute. 1950: 35-37. English version hosted online at Fischinger Archive.
Cotta, Ty. "Oskar Fischinger: Abstract Movie Master." Modern Photography Vol 16:7 (July 1952), 74-75, 82, 84.
Millier, Arthur. "Fischinger Still Paintings on Exhibit at Pasadena." Los Angeles Times 30 Dec. 1956.
Renan, Sheldon. An Introduction to The American Underground Film. New York: Dutton, 1967. 51, 59, 79, 81-82, 93-95, 116.
Weaver, Mike. "The Concrete Films of Oskar Fischinger." Art And Artists 4.2 (1969): 30-33.
Long Beach Museum of Art. Bildmusik: Art of Oskar Fischinger. Long Beach, CA, 1970.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger: Fantasia's Forerunner." Coast FM & Fine Arts 11.6 (June 1970): 44-45
Curtis, David. Experimental Cinema. London: Studio Vista, 1971. 30, 53-61, 131, 134.
Starr, Cecile. Discovering the Movies: An Illustrated Introduction to the Motion Picture. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1972.
Moritz, William. "The Films of Oskar Fischinger." Film Culture 58-60 (1974): 37-188.
Martin, André. "Pourquoi il Faut Voir, Revoir et Revoir Encore les Films de Oskar Fischinger." Ottawa '76 International Animated Film Festival. Cinémathèque Québecoise, 1976.
Moritz, William. "The Importance of Being Fischinger." Ottawa '76 International Animated Film Festival. Cinémathèque Québecoise, 1976. Hosted online at CVM Library.
Russett, Robert and Cecile Starr. Experimental Animation. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co., 1976. Rev. ed. New York: Da Capo Press, 1988.
Moritz, William. Fischinger at Disney - or Oskar in the Mousetrap. Millimeter. 5. 2 (1977): 25-28, 65-67.
Canemaker, John. "Elfriede! On the Road with Mrs. Oskar Fischinger." Funnyworld 18 (Summer 1978): 4-14. Online version at Fischinger Archive.
Hein, Birgit, and Wulf Herzogenrath, eds. Film Als Film, 1910 Bis Heute. Kölnischer Kunstverein, 1978: pp. 74-78.
Moritz, William. "Non-Objective Film: The Second Generation." In Film as Film: Formal Experiment in Film, 1910-1975, Hayward Gallery/Arts Council of Great Britain, 1979. Fischinger Excerpt
Janiak, Larry and Dave Daruszka. "Oskar Fischinger: An Interview with Elfriede Fischinger." Zoetrope, 1979. Online, hosted at Fischinger Archive site.
Rosenblum, Gordon. Oskar Fischinger, 1900 - 1967. Fischinger, a Retrospective of Paintings and Films. Curators Gerald Nordland and Gordon Rosenblum. Denver, CO: Gallery 609, 1980.
Moritz, William. "You Can't Get Then from Now." (Part I). Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Arts Journal 29 (1981): 26-40, 70-72. Hosted online at the CVM Library.
Rigby, Ida Katherine. "Oskar Fischinger (1900-1967)," in The Milton Wichner Collection (exhibition catalog). Long Beach: Long Beach Museum of Art, 1981.
Bohn, Richard. "Visual Music Pioneer: Oskar Fischinger" in The Relay. Reseda: Visual Music Alliance (October1982), p. 3.
Canemaker, John. "The Abstract Films of Oskar Fischinger." Print Magazine 37.2 (March/April 1983): 66-72.
Fischinger, Elfriede. "Writing Light." The Relay. 3.2 (May 1984): 4-7. Reprinted in First Light, Robert A. Haller, ed. New York: Anthology Film Archives, 1998: 30-34. Hosted online at CVM Library.
Moritz, William. "Towards a Visual Music." Cantrills Filmnotes 47-48 (1985): 35-42.
v. Maur, Karin. Vom Klang der Bilder: Die Musik in der Kunst des 20.Jahrhunderts. Munchen: Prestel, 1985
Moritz, William. "Abstract Film and Color Music." The Spiritual In Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985. New York: Abbeville, 1986: 296-311.
Beauvais, Yann, Dusimbere, Deke, (sous la dir. de), Musique Film, Scratch / Cinémathèque Française, Paris, May 1986.
Bendazzi, Giannalberto. Cartoons: Il cinema d'animazione, 1888-1988. Venice: Marsilio Editori, 1988. English edition: Cartoons: One Hundred Years of Cinema Animation. Trans. Anna Tarabolettti-Segre. London: John Libbey & Company Ltd., 1994.
Moritz, William. The Private World of Oskar Fischinger. Liner Notes,"The World of Oskar Fischinger" laserdisc, LaserDisc Corporation, Tokyo, 1988.
Ehrlich, Susan. "Oskar Fischinger." Turning The Tide: Early Los Angeles Modernists, 1920-1956. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1990. 63-67.
Moritz, William. "Film Censorship During the Nazi Era." Degenerate Art: The Fate of The Avant-Garde in Nazi Germany. New York: Abrams, 1991: 184-191. German edition: Entartete Kunst: Das Schicksal Der Avantgarde Im Nazi-Deutschland. Munich: Hirmer, 1992: 184-191.
Lorenz, Marianne. "Oskar Fischinger." Theme And Improvisation: Kandinsky and The American Avant-Garde. Dayton Art Institute, 1992: 159-162.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger" in Optische Poesie: Oskar Fischinger, Leben und Werk. Herbert Gehr, Ed. Frankfurt: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1993: 7-90.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger: artiste de ce siècle." L'armateur 12 (1994): 29-33.
Moritz, William. "Musique de la Couleur - Cinéma Intégral." in Poétique de la Couleur. Paris: Musée du Louvre, 1995. English version hosted online at CVM Library.
Cantrill, Arthur. La couleur au cinéma - Poétique de la couleur (Review) in Cantrills Filmnotes No. 79/80, Nov. 1995.
Smith, Harry. "Oskar Fischinger." Articulated Light: The Emergence of Abstract Film in America. Gerald O'Grady and Bruce Posner, Eds. Boston: Harvard Film Archives, 1995: 9.
Karlstrom, Paul J., ed. On the Edge of America - California Modernist Art 1900 - 1950. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1996. 13, 224-228, 232, 238, 283. Online version
Moritz, William. "Gasparcolor: Perfect Hues for Animation." Animation Journal 5. Maureen Furniss, Ed. (1996): 52-57. Hosted online by Fischinger Archive.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger." in L'art du mouvement. Jean-Michel Bouhours, Ed. Paris: Centre Georges Pompidou. 1996: 154
Moritz, William. "The Dream of Color Music, and Machines That Made it Possible." Animation World Magazine 2.1 (1997)
Knight, Christopher. "First Class Study of Fischinger's Impact." Los Angeles Times 2 May 1998: F1.
Allan, Robin. Walt Disney and Europe: A Closer Look At Sources. London & Sydney: John Libbey, 1999.
Culhane, John. Fantasia 2000: Visions of Hope. Disney Editions, 1999.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger, artista del secolo, Gli anni americani." Cinegrafie 13 (2000): 112-117 (Italian). In English: 278-282.
Barron, Stephanie, Sheri Bernstein, and Ilene Susan Fort, eds. Reading California - Art, Image, and Identity, 1900-2000. Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2000: 44, 49 n. 40.
Moritz, William. "Oskar Fischinger: Artist of the Century." Animac Magazine (2001), Mostra Internacional de Cinema d'animació (English version online)
MacDonald, Scott. Cinema 16: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2002.
Galard, J., ed. et al, L'Oeuvre d'Art Totale. Paris: Gallimard and Musée du Louvre, 110, 123-131, 133-137.
Moritz, William. Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger. Eastleigh: John Libbey, 2004
Duplaix, Sophie and Marcella Lista, eds. Sons & Lumieres: Une histoire du son dans l'art du XXe siecle. Paris: Editions du Centre Pompidou, 2004.
Klein, Norman M. The Vatican to Vegas: The History of Special Effects. New Press, 2004.
Chace Productions. The Art of Soundtracks. Chacers, Dec. 2004 - PDF
Brougher, Kerry, ed., et al. Visual Music: Synaesthesia in Art and Music since 1900. London and New York: Thames & Hudson, 2005
Harvey, Doug. The Colors! The Colors! - Playing 'Visual Music' at MOCA. Los Angeles Weekly, February 2005
James, David. The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Levin, Thomas Y. "Tones from Out of Nowhere": Rudolph Pfenninger and the Archaeology of Synthetic Sound. New Media, Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. Wendy Hui Chun, Thomas W. Keenan, eds. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Keefer, Cindy. "Space Light Art": Early Abstract Cinema and Multimedia, 1900-1959. White Noise. Ernest Edmonds and Mike Stubbs, eds. Melbourne: ACMI, 2005. 21-28, 30-31, 33. Online at CVM library.
Cox, Christoph. "Lost in Translation: Christoph Cox on Sound in the Discourse of Synesthesia." Artforum, October 2005.
Zone, Ray. "Bi-Optic Abstracts: The Stereo Paintings of Oskar Fischinger." Stereoscopy 67, March 2006. Zurich: International Stereoscopic Union
Jewanski, Jörg and Natalia Sidler, Eds. Farbe - Licht - Musik: Synästhesie und Farblichtmusik. Bern: Peter Lang, 2006. (Part of the series, Zurcher Musikstudien Band 5).
MacDonald, Scott, ed. Art in Cinema: Documents Toward a History of the Film Society. Temple University Press, 2006.
Leslie, Esther. "When Abstraction and Comics Collide." Tate ETC 7 (Summer 2006): 44-49. Online version
Deisl, Heinrich. Absolute Bilderwelten. Ray Filmmagazin, September 2007. Vienna.
van Campen, Cretien. The Hidden Sense: Synesthesia in Art and Science. MIT Press (Leonardo Books), 2007.
San Diego Museum of Art. Animated Painting. San Diego: San Diego Museum of Art, 2007.(exhibition catalogue)
Beck, Jay and Tony Grajeda. Lowering the Boom: Critical Studies in Film Sound. University of Illinois Press, 2008. *
Appelt, Deiter and Hubertus von Amelunxen and Peter Weibel. Notation. Berlin: Akademie der Künste, 2008 (German, exhibition catalogue)
Keefer, Cindy. "Cosmic Cinema and The Vortex Concerts." in Cosmos: The Search for the Origins, from Kupka to Kubrick. Arnauld Pierre, Ed. Madrid:El Umbral/Santa Cruz de Tenerife:TEA, 2008. Exhibition catalog.
Kehr, Dave. "Marching Backward into the Avant-Garde," New York Times, February 27, 2009
Hanhardt, John, with Karole Vail et al. The Museum of Non-Objective Painting. New York: Guggenheim Museum, forthcoming August 2009.
Keefer, Cindy. "Ramlichtmusik - Early 20th Century Abstract Cinema Immersive Environments" Leonardo, Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology. Forthcoming, 2009.
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Bibliography (c) Center for Visual Music, 2006-09. This bibliography represents selections from published works. Some texts with numerous factual errors have not been included. In general, brief online pieces and short reviews of painting exhibitions have not been included; see the Fischinger Archive website for some of these items.
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NOTE: This bibliography is often updated. Last update April, 2009.
An extensive bibliography including many early German texts may be found in William Moritz's book Optical Poetry (2004).