Description
Invisible Fisherman: The Art of Bill Brand
Author/Editor: Bill Brand; Edited by Tara Nelson and Scott Hammen
CONTENTS
The name of artist Bill Brand is so well known and admired in the field of moving image art that it is hard to believe that many of his most notable achievements have up to now remained almost invisible.
Brand has long been recognized both as a filmmaker and perhaps the world’s leading authority on the preservation of historically important experimental films. But it is far less known that he has brought the same curiosity and inventiveness that have served him so well in preserving films of others to his own work in a surprising variety of other media.
Bill Brand is an artist/fisherman who has unobtrusively cast his lines of creative inquiry into many diverse waters ranging from public art spaces, to installations, performances, painting and drawing. A generous selection of what he has caught can finally be seen in this book.
CONTENTS:
Foreword by Scott Hammen
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Critical Perspectives
Bill Brand: Fields of Simultaneous Possibilities | Robby Gilbert
Masstransiscope: Experimental Film for the Masses | Annie Dell’Aria
“It’s all about pattern recognition” | Alberte Pagán
Bill Brand: Three Intervals | Esperanza Collado
A Studio Visit with Bill Brand | Genevieve Yue
Studio
DRAWING AS THINKING: From abstraction to analysis
BREAKING THE FRAME: Techniques and strategies
PORTRAITS: People, pets and pancakes
CHINESE PAINTING STUDIES: New traditions
MIXING MEDIA: Expanded exhibitions
DRAWING FROM HOME: Daily practice
Filmography
Publisher: VSW Press / FilmArtBook / Eyewash Books
Publication Year: 2026
Pages: 161
Dimensions: 8 x 10 inches
Format: Softcover
Printing: Full color, digital offset
ISBN: 0-89822-214-1
