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Artist Profile: Robert Breer Robert Breer has been a major figure in experimental animation for more than 40 years. His large body of work includes paintings, kinetic sculpture and films. He has had retro- spective exhibitions of his work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and at MOMA and the Whitney Museum in New York. Born in Detroit, Breer studied painting at Stanford and moved to Europe in the 1940s, where he was influenced by the work of Piet Mondrian and Wassily Kandinsky. Returning to the U.S. in the early 1960s, he embarked on a career in animated films, bringing a Modernist perspective to his films. Today he lives in New York state and heads the film department at the Cooper Union in New York City. Selected Filmography:
Robert Breer Fax: (914) 365-3117 BibliographyIn the Abstract -Absolut Panushka"Beyond 'Abstract' Criticism" by William Moritz "Non-Objective Film: the Second Generation." Exhibition catalog. Film as Film, Formal Experiment in Film, 1910 - 1975. London: Hayward Gallery, 1979, 59-71 LinksOn Visible Strings by Fred Camper, Chicago Reader |