Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger

Optical Poetry: The Life and Work of Oskar Fischinger

by William Moritz

Paperback - 246 pages
Publication Date - 2004

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Preface

Oskar Fischinger is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, embracing the abstraction that became the major art movement of that century, and exploring the new technology of the cinema to open abstract painting into a new Visual Music that performs in liquid time. If he is less well known than some of the other major artists, it is precisely because he was buffeted about by the wars, Nazism, the communist witch-hunts and other phenomena of his century. Here is a glimpse of his life and works.

Dr. William Moritz October 2003

Contents
Preface	vii
Remerciements	ix
Introduction: Gelnhausen, Frankfurt and Munich	1
Chapter 1 Berlin	21
Chapter 2 The Nazi Terror	45
Chapter 3 Hollywood	67
Chapter 4 Disney and Guggenheim	89
Chapter 5 Painting	109
Chapter 6 Oskar and Bach	127
Epilogue	149
Testimonials for Oskar Fischinger	163
Statements by Oskar Fischinger	173
True creation	191
Selected list of public and private collections of Fischinger artworks	193
Oskar Fischinger Filmography	197
Sources for Fischinger Films	238
Oskar Fischinger Bibliography	239
Index of Illustrations	245

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