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Rose Lowder Bouquets

Author/Editor: Scott Hammen

CONTENTS

The Bouquets of Rose Lowder’s Bouquets (1994–2002) are among the most alluring bodies of work in contemporary moving image art. Made at intervals over three decades, the Bouquets chronicle Lowder’s life-long inquiry into the mysteries of visual perception.This book invites a deeper look at Lowder’s unique and beautiful world. It includes a selection of critical appreciations, a catalogue raisonné of the Bouquet series, and a collection of Lowder’s own reflections on her work.

The critic Michael Sicinski writes in his essay “Flower Power”:

“Ah, yes! Rose Lowder!” This is the response when the name of the French experimental filmmaker comes up in conversation among the avant-garde cognoscenti, the recognition that Lowder is not only a major master of our time but a kind of inevitability, one of the essential pillars of cinema as a material art form. And yet, her work isn’t as widely written about or addressed in canonical surveys, compared with comparable figures of her generation, with comparable levels of achievement. It seems that Lowder is taken as a given, part of the overall landscape of the experimental film universe, an axiom. No one makes films like hers, but there are dozens of films for which Lowder is the only logical point of comparison. Her Bouquets series has become her best known set of films, arguably the works that cemented her reputation….

CONTENTS:

Part 1: Critical Views
Scott MacDonald: Toward an Ecological Cinema
Michael Sicinski: Flower Power
Enrico Camporesi: A Filmic Exploration by Means of Botanical Imagery
Sarah Cooper: Perceptual-Imaginative Space and the Beautiful Ecologies of Rose Lowder’s Bouquets
Tara Merenda Nelson: The Bouquet Notebooks
Elena Duque: Rose Lowder, Single Frame Worker

Part 2: A Catalogue Raisonné
An Introduction by Rose Lowder
Bouquets 1–40 (1994–2002)

Part 3: Writings by Rose Lowder
Remarks on Color Stemming from the Bouquets
Leaving the Artist’s Studio Behind
Film as Visual Art
From the Pictorial to the Filmic
Filming Frame-by-Frame
Improvised Composition of the Film Image in the Camera

Notes on Contributors
Notes
Acknowledgments

Publisher: Eyewash Books
Publication date: April 28, 2023
Edition: 2nd ed.
Language: English
Print length: 220 pages
ISBN-10: 2958204464
ISBN-13: 978-2958204464
Item weight: 14.6 ounces
Dimensions: 6 × 0.57 × 9 inches