Jonas Mekas

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The Camera Was Always Running

Edited by Inesa Brasiske, Lukas Brasiskis, and Kelly Taxter; With essays by Ed Halter, Melissa Ragona, and Andrew Uroskie

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Exploring the life and work of avant-garde film’s most influential and intriguing figure

Between 1950 and his death, the artist and impresario Jonas Mekas (1922–2019) made more than one hundred radically innovative, often diaristic films and video works. He also founded film festivals, cooperatives, archives, and magazines and wrote film criticism and poetry. Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running is the first major publication in English on this pivotal member of the New York avant-garde scene, presenting an extensively illustrated, in-depth exploration of his radical art and restless life.

Born in rural Lithuania, Mekas made his way to New York, where he became a central figure in the overlapping realms of experimental theater, music, poetry, performance, and film. This book brings his work alive on the page with sequences of stills from film and video, photographic series and installations, and archival documents. Leading scholars examine his work and influence, and a timeline expands our understanding of his life.



Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius


Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius


Exhibition Schedule:

Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
(November 19, 2021–February 27, 2022)
 
Jewish Museum, New York
(February 18–June 5, 2022) 

Kelly Taxter is director of the Parrish Art Museum, Long Island, New York. Inesa Brašiškė is an art historian and curator based in Vilnius. Lukas Brasiskis is a curator and a PhD candidate in the Department of Cinema Studies at New York University.

EXHIBITION SCHEDULE

Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
(November 19, 2021–February 27, 2022)
 
Jewish Museum, New York
(February 18–June 5, 2022) 

“This new compendium . . . offers a look at its formidably multifaceted subject that is at once a comprehensive introduction to him and a fresh bounty of insights on the implications of his life and work.”—Nolan Kelly, Hyperallergic
ISBN: 9780300253078
Publication Date: March 15, 2022
Publishing Partner: Published in association with the Jewish Museum, New York, and the Lithuanian National Museum of Art, Vilnius
256 pages, 8 1/4 x 11
950 color + 50 b/w illus.
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