Ara Osterweil Livres

StickyPictures examinesand celebrates the evolving work of Montreal-based artist Janet Werner. Inher paintings, Werner builds a constellation of spatial and figurativeexplorations drawn from fashion magazines and art history to create collage-likecomposite figures that slip easily between articulations of beauty, gender,psychology and emotion. Werner's painterly operations are both unsettling andseductive, revealing the conditions of perception and looking as passageways tounderstanding the intensity of the world at hand. Werner's unique combination of abstraction,fictional portraiture, and the rich history of painting are explored in StickyPictures through texts by art and media historians, as well as an interviewwith the artist. Janet Werner's work has been featuredin international solo exhibitions from New York to Los Angeles and as far awayas Cape Town. Her work was included in the Prague Biennale in 2003 and is featuredin the collections of the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Muséed'art contemporain in Montreal, The Art Gallery of Ontario in Toronto, WinnipegArt Gallery, the Canadian Embassy in Berlin, the University of Lethbridge,Owens Art Gallery in Sackville, the Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Dunlop ArtGallery in Regina, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts in San Francisco, andnumerous private and corporate collections. Werner lives and works inMontreal.

Explores the groundbreaking representation of the body in experimental films of the 1960s and 1970s. Focusing on sexually explicit films by Andy Warhol, Barbara Rubin, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Yoko Ono and Paul Sharits. -- .

Flesh Cinema delves into the innovative portrayal of the body in 1960s and 1970s experimental films, highlighting works by notable filmmakers such as Andy Warhol and Carolee Schneemann. It examines how these sexually explicit films reshaped American visual culture and influenced the creators' lives. By contextualizing the films within the civil rights, feminist, and sexual liberation movements, the book reveals the ongoing impact of social politics on the production and interpretation of avant-garde cinema, showcasing its role in reflecting societal changes.