David gatten the great art of knowing book

From beautiful photography coffeetable books to firstedition postimpressionist works of literary art, we round up some of our favourites below. The great art of knowing awardwinning avantgarde filmmaker and guggenheim fellow david gatten will present his 2004 film, the great art of knowing, an exploration of the library of william byrd ii, a prominent 18thcentury virginia landowner and author. Awardwinning filmmaker and guggenheim fellow david gatten will present his 2004 film, the great art of knowing. Since 1996 gatten s films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. The second film in the cycle, the great art of knowing, is generally regarded at gattens most. Filmforum welcomes renowned experimental film artist david gatten for a. Cdodge2s blog some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. A gentle and enduring glance at both visible traces of demarcation in the forms of cartographical dividing lines, 16mm cement splices, and shadows of text lifted. The great art of knowing 2004 david gattens works on film fully embrace the transience of the medium, each screening marking the films as unique material objects. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Cinema scope the systematically incomplete dialectical. Apr 26, 20 it was an october afternoon last year at the brooklyn screening space uniondocs, and our group of five was awaiting david gatten. Gattens experiments with tape led him to use the scraper of his cement splicer not to edit but to make imagesthe ragged landscapes in secret history of the dividing line, for example, were made by scraping.

Bruce elder, kathryn elder, and a historical chart by john porter. By teaching you the artists visual language and how to read it, how to look at and understand great art gives you an extraordinary key to the full, unforgettable richness of great artworkstheir ability to open you up to new ways of seeing, to bring alive the majestic unfolding of history, and to reveal human experience in all its. This experimental film program one of six features nathaniel dorskys song and solitude 200506, david gattens the great art of knowing 2004 and robert. Social and tacit dimensions of knowledge and the limits of the community of practice paul duguid university of california, berkeley copenhagen business school abstract community of practice theory is inherently a social theory. The author directly examines the issue of determinism vs. Its also how i have traditionally found art that i truly love when im looking for a movie, or a new album, or a new book, i am on the hunt, my nose trained like a hunting dog, for moments when an artist seems to have created an entirely personal piece of art that is actually listenablewatchablereadable. He arrived distinctly attiredsmalllensed glasses, a scraggly beard, overalls, and a heavy knapsack, from which he removed prints of eight of his eighteen completed 16mm films. Stills from david gatten s beautiful cycle of films, the secret history of the dividing line. Langan is far more than a guide to learning techniques. Filmmaker david gatten at the velaslavasay panorama this. Daniel stolzenberg, editor, is a doctoral candidate in the history department at stanford university. In it, gatten specifically restages a tremulous death match within what we have come to understand as intellectual history. However, to quote david gattenwho is also the cause of this textual.

The film belongs to a series exploring the extensive library of william byrd ii, a prominent 17thcentury virginian landowner and author. Paul salvetti, stephanie van rijn, brianna casper, dylan howard. David gatten the extravagant shadows 2012, 175 minutes, color, sound. Enter your location to see which movie theaters are playing the great art of knowing near you. Expositions on free will and select essays kindle edition by christopher michael langan. David edward gatten is an american experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. As a graduate student at the art institute of chicago in 1996, david gatten, having been inspired by the work of agnes martin, experimented with drawing lines on film when serendipity led him to a littleknown volume called the secret history of the line.

Ive learned to read very differently based on the kind of books i have been. Presented with triple canopy as part of the brooklyn book festival. The idea of working physically with editing materialswith the tape and cement splicerto actually. The connection between the ways of knowing and the arts prezi. None of gattens films thematizes this problem as explicitly as the great art of knowing 2004, which, at 37 minutes, is the longest of the byrd films to date. Jan 01, 2010 the book of not knowing is one of the most important books that i own. His research focuses on the history of occult sciences in early modern europe. The most recent installment in gattens series inspired by the william byrd library focuses on athanasius kirchers seventeenthcentury encyclopedia and evelyn byrds forbidden romance. David gatten screenings in chicago march 5, 6, and 8. William byrd booms among his books while evelyn keeps to a quiet window. The second film in the cycle, the great art of knowing, contains a quotation from susan howe that may sum up gatten s underlying proposition for animating byrds library. A midcareer retrospective of fourteen films by david gatten, in three programs. Events spring 2010 duke university libraries magazine.

Why fish dont exist explores eugenics in the us, a. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Awardwinning avantgarde filmmaker and guggenheim fellow david gatten will present his 2004 film, the great art of knowing, an exploration of the library of william byrd ii, a prominent 18thcentury virginia landowner and author. Jan 17, 2016 alexander iii of macedon, or alexander the great as he came to be known, was perhaps the greatest conqueror of the ancient world. This experimental film program one of six features nathaniel dorskys song and solitude 200506, david gatten s the great art of knowing 2004 and. Please select the top list you are interested in, which will show you the movies in that list, and you can start checking them. The baroque encyclopedia of athanasius kircher stolzenberg, daniel on. A guide to selfknowledge and spiritual fulfillment through creativity by pat b.

In the program notes he composed for the great art of knowing 2004, part ii of. The book referred to in the title is the book you, as a parent, might give your child to teach them of the world. For the past fifteen years american filmmaker david gatten us, 1971 has. David gattens films generate tactile compositions and draw novel conclusions from 19thcentury scientific treatises, outdated 20thcentury instructional texts, and rare books from 17th and 18thcentury personal libraries.

Taking as a point of departure the volume of the same title by the 17th century jesuit priest athanasius kircher, this films attempts a peripatetic exploration of empiricism over the last 500 years. Gatten is the 2010 duke distinguished visiting filmmaker in the program of the arts. David gatten s ambitious 16mm cycle secret history of the dividing line attempts a rare feat, an investigation of the borders between word and image influenced equally by stan brakhage and ludwig wittgenstein both veterans of related. Gatten is the 2010 duke distinguished visiting filmmaker in the program of the arts of the moving image at duke university. The great art of knowing 16mm, 24fps, 37 mins, 2004. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading the art of knowing.

A still from the great art of knowing showing byrds bookplate. As opposed to simply giving your child the bible or other book based on the region the child was born in. David gatten at hallwalls, buffalo, may 2005 by gatten. Contributing author paula findlen is professor of history and director of the science, technology and society program at stanford university. Remote work advice from the largest allremote company. The ideas for art making presented in this book are helpful, and there are. How to look at and understand great art by sharon latchaw. David gatten will present three programs while in chicago. The life of a lonely and insecure history teacher, norman salvetti is changed by the arrival of a young liberal arts teacher, astrid van rijn as they help each other in their own struggle. Find yourself resting uneasily half way up the stairs.

Former chicagoan david gatten presents three of his experimental works, including the great art of knowing 2005, which fred camper describes as an evocation of knowledge and its limits in. Since 1996 gatten s films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, writing and drawing, often blurring the boundary between these categories. The great art of knowing david gatten has completed four films in the series secret history of the dividing line. Secret history of the dividing line diagonal thoughts.

By the time of his death in 323 bc, he had managed to subdue a large part of the known world, and his empire stretched from the aegean in the west to india in the east, and from macedonia in the north to egypt in the south. Environmental education resources to commemorate earth days 50th anniversary. The bulk of his work has centered around the books, journals, and letters of the william byrd. These screenings also mark the official launch for our new monograph the loop collective. If you prefer seeing art irl, visit one of our recommended art exhibitions in london. The conference brought together an international group of artists, scientists, museum curators, writers, educators, and other. In fact, if i were stranded on a desert island and could only have 3 books this would be the one i most definitely would not want to be without. David edward gatten born february 11, 1971 ann arbor, michigan is an american experimental filmmaker and moving image artist. David gatten filmmaker, henry james fan, recent guggenheim fellow and aspiring audio book producer makes bookish films about letters and libraries and lovers and ghosts that are filled with words, some of which you can read. Thomas jefferson ended up with a number of byrds books, and. Centering on virginias byrd family library, they bring out the sensuousness of printed text. The great art of knowing david gatten on either side of a life, find a library before and an auction after. Since 1996 gattens films have explored the intersection of the printed word and moving image, cataloging the variety of ways in which texts functions in cinema as both language and image, often blurring the boundary between these categories. Talking with us experimental filmmaker david gatten after a screening at the national history museums darwin centre of his new film journals and remarks, a filmic reprise of darwins voyage of the beagle to the galapagos islands that also put into structuralist action an unrealised idea of leonardo da vincis concerning the division of.