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I seem to live : the New York diaries

Title: I seem to live : the New York diaries / Jonas Mekas ; with entries by Adolfas Mekas ; editor, Anne König.
Author: Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019
Publication: Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2019-2021]

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Description

2 volumes (1,555 pages) : illustrations, facsimles, portraits; 22 cm

Summary

"I seem to live: the New York diaries, 1950-2011 is Jonas Mekas's key literary work. The first volume of this magnum opus, covering the period from 1950-1969, appears posthumously in the year of his death. It stands on an equal fooing with his cinematic oeuvre, which he initially developed together with his brother Adolfas after their arrival in New York. In 1954, the two brothers founded Film Culture magazine, and a weekly column for The Village Voice. It was in this period that his writing, films, and unflagging commitment to art began to establish him as a pioneer of American avant-garde cinema and the barometer of the New York art scene. An assemblage of Jonas's diaries from this exciting period, enriched with his own personal visual material, I seem to live: the New York diaries, vol. 1, 1950-1969 reads as a moving and subjectively condensed chronology of the postwar New York underground scene, which he shaped and defended through his writings"--Page 4 of cover

Alternative Title

Jonas Mekas : I seem to live

Subject

Genre/Form

Diaries.
Autobiographies.

Note

Cover title.
Includes index.

Contents

Vol. 1 1950-1969 -- Vol. 2 1969-2011.

Call Number

MWES (Mekas, J.) 22-3729

ISBN

9783959052887
395905288X
9783959052900
3959052901

OCLC

1140915379

Author

Mekas, Jonas, 1922-2019, author, artist.

Title

I seem to live : the New York diaries / Jonas Mekas ; with entries by Adolfas Mekas ; editor, Anne König.

Publisher

Leipzig, Germany : Spector Books, [2019-2021]

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Mekas, Adolfas, 1925-2011.

König, Anne (Editor), editor.

Cover Title

Jonas Mekas : I seem to live

Research Call Number

MWES (Mekas, J.) 22-3729

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