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Our store offers 2 different Oskar Fischinger DVDs, plus other Visual Music DVDs, books, gifts, posters and more

 

Available at many bookshops and online retailers:

bookOskar Fischinger (1900-1967): Experiments in Cinematic Abstraction. Edited by Cindy Keefer and Jaap Guldemond. Publisher: EYE FIlmmuseum and Center for Visual Music. This monograph explores the position of Fischinger's work within the international avant-garde. It examines his animation and painting, his use of music, his experiences in Hollywood, the Lumigraph, visual music theories, and his influence on today's filmmakers, artists and animators. The book also contains previously unpublished documents including texts by Fischinger himself, and unshot animation drawings. Essays compiled and commissioned by editor Keefer include new research and texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours, Jeanpaul Goergen, Ilene Susan Fort, James Tobias, Cindy Keefer, Richard Brown, Paul Hertz, Joerg Jewanski, and more. 2012 release in Europe, 2013 in US.

PREVIEWS: Pages 186-87; pages 174-175; pages 170-71; pages 132-133; pages 50-51

The book also features texts by Fischinger, a new bibliography and filmography by CVM, and testimonials by international artists, scholars, historians and authors including David James, Giannalberto Bendazzi, John Canemaker, Suzanne Buchan, yann beauvais, Joost Rekveld, Robert Haller, Arthur & Corinne Cantrill, Scott Snibbe, Robert Seidel and more. 240 pages, paperback. Extensive color illustrations, including never published ornament sound experiments animation material. ISBN 978-9071338007. Distributed by Thames & Hudson, worldwide.

Available in Germany through Walter Koenig; in Amsterdam at EYE Filmmuseum shop, and other selected bookstores and museum shops throughout Europe. Online through several major retailers. No longer sold online by CVM.


 

A few items from our previous store site are still available:

 

 

CVMB4. Oskar Fischinger - Gallery 609 Exhibition Catalog, from 1980 Painting exhibition, features 18 large color reproductions of Fischinger's paintings, plus 3 short essays, one by Elfriede Fischinger. Excellent resource for the study of Fischinger's paintings. Paperback, $65. While supplies last

10% discount to CVM Members, inquire

 


 

CVMB1. Film Culture No. 58-59-60, 1974. Contains Wiliam Moritz's first biography/critical study of Oskar Fischinger (151 pgs). Out of print journal. $40 Email to order

10% discount to CVM Members, inquire

 

 


 

We are out of stock on regular (unsigned) sales copies of William Moritz's Fischinger biography Optical Poetry. We have one copy signed by the author in early 2004 just before his death $200, inquire to cvmaccess (at) gmail.com or purchase at our Squarespace shop

 


 

 

 

JW Seriously Ecstatic: Joshua White at the Fillmore East, 1968-70. Artist Music Journal #11. This special journal is an account, with exclusive pictures, of the Joshua Light Show's legendary 2 years at Bill Graham's Fillmore East. Performing with the likes of The Doors, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Blue Cheer, The Band, and many others, the Joshua Light Show created extravagant visual experiences to accompany the music. Here are photos and film stills from those performances, along with pleasant detours to the set of Midnight Cowboy and the Woodstock festival. Dan Nadel has interviewed Joshua White and scoured his archives to compile this mini-history. Softcover, edition of 1000, Published by Soundscreen Design. $10. Limited supply.

    $10  


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