Robert Breer
Image Par Images, 1955
4220-BK
4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. (12.5 x 9.1 cm)
A unique flip book using only lines in movement dedicated to Robert Rauschenberg. Breer was best known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and other materials. Breer was an experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor. This unpaginated flip book is an experiment that helped him transit from painting to films. "I made a flip book of small paintings to try to understand how I arrived at making this final painting. I was working in very simple geometric forms, hard edge, conventional, you know, more or less conventional neo-plasticism. So, this first flip book then became the basis for a film on my next visit to America, which was that year, 1952, and yet I didn’t really use those original images. I had to invent my own system because I had no training in filmmaking at all and certainly none in animation. I only knew that I had to do one frame at a time."
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Robert Breer
Image Par Images, 1955
4388-BK
4 7/8 x 3 5/8 in. (12.5 x 9.1 cm)
Unpaginated "flip-book" consisting of approx. 100 leaves printed recto only with simple abstract forms and shapes, that, when flipped, create an animated sequence of abstract images emphasizing movement and playfulness. Published in conjunction with a groundbreaking exhibition "Le Mouvement" at the Galerie Denise René in 1955, the first Kinetic Art show in Paris. Breer (1926-2011), known as the "kinetic poet of the avant-garde", was renowned for his spearheading efforts in animation, utilizing both abstract as well as representational images throughout a career of over 50 years. He worked with avant-garde movements of his time and was associated with high modernism, fluxus, pop, and other genres.
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