When you tell us about such events, Barry, you make me, at least,
envious of your living in the environs of this place, which you take
such good advantage of. Sounds fascinating, to be sure....
Doug
On 27-Jan-08, at 7:27 AM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Yesterday afternoon I made a special trip to the National Gallery of
> Art in
> Washington DC, hoping that they would show the scheduled four hours of
> documentaries on art in the revised order printed on their website.
> I had
> decided in advance that I only wanted to witness Francois Levy-
> Kuentz's
> documentary on Yves Klein ("La Revolution Bleue", 2006, 52
> minutes). This
> visual artist had intrigued me for years, but I had a rather sketchy
> perspective on him. My hope was that this film might include some
> archival
> footage, never knowing that Klein had arranged for filmic
> documentation of
> the major moves in his life/career. What a dazzling figure--way
> beyond
> what I had imagined. As I was leaving the museum, a fellow
> spectator asked
> me whether the film documented an actual person or whether an
> imaginary
> being had been concocted by the filmmaker. There's also otherwise
> unavailable footage of Pierre Restany and the Nouveaux Realistes
> (Arman,
> Jean Tinguely, Daniel Spoerri, Cesar, and Francois Dufrene [performing
> sound poetry]). In fact, I had not known that Yves Klein had
> cofounded
> this vanguard movement with the critic Restany in 1960. Others
> involved
> (but not imaged in the film) included Martial Raysse, Mimmo Rotella,
> then
> Niki de Saint Phalle, and last but not least, Christo joined the
> group in
> 1963. I'm tempted to offer comparisons to literary manifestations
> which
> emerged in 1960, but let me just say that many of the figures
> associated
> with Oulipo are equally fresh and inventive.
>
> "La Revolution Bleue" is available on DVD if you don't want to wait
> until
> it's screened within a visual art context in your geographic range.
> My
> highest recommendation:
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> http://www.artfifa.com/index.php?option=com_film&task=view&id=699&Itemid=51
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> <http://www.boutiquesdemusees.fr/en/shop/products/details/36-dvd-video-yves-
> klein-la-revolution-bleue.html>
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