Background
Vogel was born in Vienna, Austria.
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Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel (2005-09-15)
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Film as a Subversive Art
(A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's s...)
A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's seminal book, Film as a Subversive Art was first published in 1974, and has been out of print since 1987. According to Vogel--founder of Cinema 16, North America's legendary film society--the book details the "accelerating worldwide trend toward a more liberated cinema, in which subjects and forms hitherto considered unthinkable or forbidden are boldly explored." So ahead of his time was Vogel that the ideas that he penned some 30 years ago are still relevant today, and readily accessible in this classic volume. Accompanied by over 300 rare film stills, Film as a Subversive Art analyzes how aesthetic, sexual and ideological subversives use one of the most powerful art forms of our day to exchange or manipulate our conscious and unconscious, demystify visual taboos, destroy dated cinematic forms, and undermine existing value systems and institutions. This subversion of form, as well as of content, is placed within the context of the contemporary world view of science, philosophy, and modern art, and is illuminated by a detailed examination of over 500 films, including many banned, rarely seen, or never released works.
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Be Sand, Not Oil: The Life and Work of Amos Vogel (Austrian Film Museum Books)
( Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film hi...)
Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film historians and curators. An émigré from Austria who arrived in New York just before the Second World War, in 1947 he created Cinema 16, a pioneering film club aimed at audiences thirsty for work "that cannot be seen elsewhere," and in 1963 was instrumental in establishing the New York Film Festival. He later embarked on an ambitious teaching career, synthesizing decades of experience and directing his ideas towards students and, eventually, the wider public. In 1974 he published the culmination of his thoughts – along with an extraordinary collection of stills – in Film as a Subversive Art. On his death, the New York Times wrote that Vogel "exerted an influence on the history of film that few other non-filmmakers can claim." Be Sand, Not Oil is the first book about Vogel, and includes uncollected writings, an unpublished interview, and new essays documenting his never-ending quest for what Werner Herzog, his friend of many decades, has described as "adequate imagery."
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Amos Vogel
Edit ProfileEducation
He fled Austria with his parents after the Nazi Anschluß in 1938 and at first studied animal husbandry at the University of Georgia.
Career
In the American South, he noted, the racism was as bad as the anti-semitism he witnessed in Europe. Later he received a bachelor"s degree from The New School for Social Research in New New York In 1973, Vogel started the Annenberg Cinematheque at the University of Pennsylvania and was eventually given a Chair for film studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, where he taught and lectured for two decades.
Vogel also wrote a book for children, How Little Lori Visited Times Square, published in 1963 with illustrations by Maurice Sendak.
Vogel participated in the documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2003) by Martina Kudlácek. Vogel died, aged 91 on April 24, 2012, in New York City.
Film as a Subversive Art: Amos Vogel and Cinema 16, Paul Cronin, United Kingdom, 2003.
Achievements
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He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art (1974) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 (1947–1963), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen Doctorate"Avino and many others In 1963, together with Richard Roud, he founded the New York Film Festival, and served as its program director until 1968.
Works
book
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Film as a Subversive Art
(A classic returns! The original edition of Amos Vogel's s...)
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Be Sand, Not Oil: The Life and Work of Amos Vogel (Austrian Film Museum Books)
( Amos Vogel was one of America's most innovative film hi...)
- Film as a Subversive Art by Amos Vogel (2005-09-15)
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Film as a Subversive Art
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