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Yvonne Rainer's The Mind is a Muscle (1968) stripped away the gestural conventions of dance or theatre narrative in an attempt to present the human subject on her own terms while at the same time manipulating the seductiveness of the image, increasingly being harnessed by capitalism. In 1968, toward the end of a decade that witnessed civil rights protests, the escalation of the war in Vietnam and an expanded notion of artistic practice, Yvonne Rainer presented her evening-length work, The Mind is a Muscle, a multipart performance for seven dancers interspersed with film and text. Catherine Wood examines the political and media context in which Rainer chose to use the dance-theatre situation and analyses her radical approach to image-making in live form. For Wood, The Mind is a Muscle proposed a new model of artwork that presents a dynamic tension between materiality and idea. It made manifest an agitated and contradictory relationship to the idea of 'work' in the context of affluent America, and stripped away the gestural conventions of dance or theatre narrative in an attempt to formulate new kinds of 'social scripts' while manipulating the seductiveness of the image, increasingly harnessed by capitalism

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This volume on avant-garde film has emerged as part of a wider reassessment of 20th century avant-garde art, literature and film carried out in the framework of a research project at the University of Edinburgh. It paves the way for a fresh assessment of avant-garde film and develops its theory as an integral part of a newly defined conception of the avant-garde as a whole, by closing the gap between theoretical approaches towards the avant-garde as defined on the basis of art and literature on the one hand and avant-garde cinema on the other. It gathers contributions by the most esteemed scholars in the field of avant-garde studies relating to the “classical” avant-garde cinema of the 1920's, to new trends emerging in the 1950's and 1960's and to the impact that innovative technologies have recently had on the further development of avant-garde and experimental film. The contributions reflect the broad range of different moving-image media that make up what we refer to today simply as “film”, at the same time as reconsidering the applicability of the label “avant-garde”, to offer a comprehensive and updated framework that will prove invaluable to scholars of both Moving Image Studies and Art History disciplines.

Experimental films --- Experimental films. --- Avant-garde films --- Experimental videos --- Personal films --- Underground films --- Motion pictures --- Video art --- History and criticism --- 1900 - 1999 --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics) --- 791.43 --- Arnold Martin --- avant-gardefilm --- Brakhage Stan --- Buñuel Luis --- Chodorov Pip --- Conrad Tony --- Delvaux André --- Deren Maya --- Dulac Germaine --- Eggeling Viking --- experimentele film --- film --- filmgeschiedenis --- futurisme --- Kubelka Peter --- magisch realisme --- Man Ray --- Mayakovsky Vladimir --- McCall Anthony --- Moholy-Nagy Laszlo --- Morrison Bill --- paracinema --- Peixoto Mario --- performances --- Rey Nicolas --- Richter Hans --- Rosenbach Ulrike --- Ruttmann Walther --- Sharits Paul --- surrealisme --- twintigste eeuw --- Valie Export --- Vertov Dziga --- video --- videokunst --- Aesthetics --- Modernism (Art) --- History and criticism. --- Film --- anno 1900-1999 --- Avant-garde (Aesthetics).