"Scrapbook of the sixties" : writings 1954-2010
Jonas Mekas (Author)
Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of 37 published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and writer
Interviews
455 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
9783959050333, 395905033X
930776668
On Alban Berg & Anna Sokolow : December 18, 1954
In defense of perversity : November 21, 1958
Absolument moderne : after reading the first issue of Big table, 1959
To the editor : May 9, 1959
"Here and now with watchers," or Dance as a modern art : a conversation between Erick Hawkins, Lucia Dlugoszewski, and Jonas Mekas, 1961
"Totentanz" Bread & Puppet Theater of Peter Schumann : May 15, 1962
A note on Jean Genet's film, "Un chant d'amour," and Harold Pinter : 1964
On John Cage : January 2, 1965
A salute to Carolee Schneemann: in praise of surface : March 1965
Jim Dine's "Natural history (The dreams)" : May 1, 1965
Notes on shooting "The brig" : June 24, 1965
The living theatre: from the conversations with Judith Malina and Julian Beck : August 1966
Interview with Gerd Stern and Michael Callahan: USCO : June 1966
On expanded cinema : selections from Movie journal : February 6, 1964-June 23, 1966
Texts on Ken Jacobs : June 25, 1985; September 3, 1995; April 11, 2001; May 2004
39 notes on dance : Summer 1967
A conversation between Pier Paolo Pasolini, Jonas Mekas, and Gideon Bachmann : July 1967
Theatre of Richard Foreman : a conversation between Richard Foreman, Amy Taubin, Michael Snow, P. Adams Sitney, Ernie Gehr, Jonas Mekas, Joyce Wieland, Ken Kelman, and Margaret Ladd : March 15, 1969
A conversation with Susan Sontag : October 30, 1969
A conversation with Emile de Antonio : November 13, 1969
Jack Smith, or The end of civilization : July 23, 1970
The invisible cathedrals of Joseph Cornell : December 31, 1970
O. M. Theatre of Hermann Nitsch : a conversation with Hermann Nitsch : March 28, 1968
First conversation with Hermann Nitsch and Peter Kubelka : December 3, 1972
Second conversation with Hermann Nitsch and Peter Kubelka : December 14, 21, and 28, 1972
Notes on the lost books of Peter Beard : November 10, 1977
The Irish photographs of Willard Van Dyke : a conversation with Willard Van Dyke conducted by Jonas Mekas and Hollis Melton : June 11, 1980
A dialogue between A, B, and C re the future of moving-image arts and the regional art centers : 1983
On liberation, arts & cultural imperialism : a conversation between Susan Sontag, Vytautas Landsbergis, Nam June Paik, and Jonas Mekas : October 8, 1994
A story about a man who went to the Frick Gallery to look at a Vermeer : April 18, 1960
Notes for Allen Ginsberg : April 2 and 5, 1997
In praise of crazy wordsmith Schuldt : 1995
Andy Warhol's street diary : August 2010
From an unpublished interview with Gregory Corso on an unmade film on Rimbaud : 1969
Notes after reseeing the movies of Andy Warhol : 1970
A few notes on Maya Deren : 1998
Bum-ba bum-ba: conversations with John & Yoko : December 18 and 21, 1970
Includes index