Agnes Varda Between Film, Photography, and Art

Agnès Varda is a prolific film director, photographer, and artist whose cinematic career spans more than six decades. Today she is best known as the innovative "mother" of the French New Wave film movement of the 1950s and 60s and for her multimedia art exhibitions. Varying her use of different media, she is a figure who defies easy categorization. In this extensively researched book, Rebecca J. DeRoo demonstrates how Varda draws upon the histories of art, photography, and film to complicate the overt narratives in her works and to advance contemporary cultural politics. Based on interviews with Varda and unparalleled access to Varda's archives, this interdisciplinary study constructs new frameworks for understanding one of the most versatile talents in twentieth and twenty-first century culture.

About the author

Rebecca J. DeRoo is Assistant Professor in the Department of Performing Arts and Visual Culture at the Rochester Institute of Technology and the author of The Museum Establishment and Contemporary Art, recipient of the 2007 Laurence Wylie Prize in French Cultural Studies. She co-curated the retrospective, Agnès Varda: (Self-)Portraits, Facts and Fiction, at the George Eastman Museum (2016).

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca J. Deroo
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.10.2017
• EAN: 9780520279414
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27941-4
• No. of pages: 248
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Europe, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), Films, cinema, History of Art, Modernism, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / General, Dance & Other Performing Arts