Description
A Companion to Mekas’ Walden
A Guide to Jonas Mekas’ Diaries, Notes and Sketches
Author/Editor: Scott Hammen
CONTENTS
When Mekas’s Diaries, Notes and Sketches (also known as Walden), premiered in New York in 1969, it opened a new chapter in the history of artists’ film. A new generation suddenly discovered that the film medium was not reserved for the commercial entertainment industry, but could be used by individual artists and poets too.
Jonas Mekas’ Walden was an invaluable record of a time and place that was the nexus of multiple forms of American art—including music, painting, dance, theater and poetry. As critic Amy Taubin wrote: “Whenever people ask me what it was like to live in New York in the ’60s, I refer them to Mekas’s Walden…”
A Companion to Mekas Walden is an in-depth guide to Jonas Mekas’s film masterpiece. It is designed to enrich the viewer’s journey through the cultural ferment of New York City in the 1960s explored by Mekas’s film. It provides a wealth of information on the film’s subjects, not just those, like John Lennon and Andy Warhol, who were already world famous, but also many who have been undeservedly forgotten.
Publisher: Eyewash Books
Publication date: February 9, 2022
Language: English
Print length: 390 pages
ISBN-10: 2958204405
ISBN-13: 978-2958204402
Item weight: 1.54 pounds
Dimensions: 6 × 1.06 × 9 inches