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Frampton, Hollis : ON THE CAMERA ARTS AND CONSECUTIVE MATTERS: THE WRITINGS OF HOLLIS FRAMPTON (WRITING ART)

The MIT Press, 2009

ISBN 9780262062763

As Hollis Frampton's photographs and celebrated experimental films were tes ting the boundaries of "the camera arts" in the 1960s and 1970s, his provoc ative and highly literate writings were attempting to establish an intellec tually resonant form of discourse for these critically underexplored fields . It was a time when artists working in diverse disciplines were beginning to pick up cameras and produce films and videotapes, well before these prac tices were understood or embraced by institutions of contemporary art. This collection of Frampton's writings presents his critical essays (many writt en for Artforum and October) along with additional material, including lect ures, correspondence, interviews, and production notes and scripts. It repl aces--and supersedes- -the long-unavailable Circles of Confusion, published in 1983. Frampton ranged widely over the visual arts in his writing, and th e texts in this collection display his unique approaches to photography, fi lm, and video, as well as the plastic and literary arts. They include criti cally acclaimed essays on Edward Weston and Eadweard Muybridge as well as a ppraisals of contemporary photographers; the influential essay, "For a Meta history of Film," along with scripts, textual material, and scores for his films; writings on video that constitute a prehistory of the digital arts; a dialogue with Carl Andre (his friend and former Phillips Andover classmat e) from the early 1960s; and two inventive, almost unclassifiable pieces th at are reminiscent of Borges, Joyce, and Beckett., Very Good

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