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"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Scrapbook of the Sixties is a collection of 37 published and unpublished texts by Jonas Mekas, filmmaker and writer
Print Book, English, 2015
Second edition View all formats and editions
Spector Books, Leipzig, 2015
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