A Dance with Fred Astaire

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by Jonas Mekas

Type

Autobiographies

Subject

Director > Jonas Mekas

Keywords

Jonas Mekas

Publishing date

2017

Publisher

Anthology

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 464 pages
8 x 9 ¾ inches (20 x 25 cm)

ISBN

978-1-9448600-9-7

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Book Presentation:
2022 marks the centennial of the birth of Jonas Mekas, the godfather of American avant-garde cinema. A Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. Memories and diary entries, conversations and insights into his work sit alongside collages of beautifully reproduced postcards, newspaper cuttings, film negatives, lists, posters and photographs, envelopes and letters, book covers, telegrams, cartoons and doodles. Mekas has kept and archived the artifacts of his life as a cultural touchstone down to the minutiae, all of which is brought together here in the form of a unique and fascinating scrapbook of a life lived with the highest artistic commitment. Guided by Mekas's distinctive prose and suffused with warmth, A Dance with Fred Astaire is rhapsodic, poetic and funny as all get out. A revealing visual autobiography of a genuine culture hero.

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