Manny Farber

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Emanuel "Manny" Farber (born February 20, 1917 in Douglas , Arizona , † August 18, 2008 in Leucadia , California ) was an American painter and film critic .

Life

Farber grew up in Arizona near the Mexican border. He was the youngest of three brothers, both later known psychoanalysts . The family moved to California when he was 15 years old. Farber studied at the University of California , Stanford University and San Francisco, there especially at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. In the 1930s, however, he not only worked as a painter, but also as a carpenter in Washington, DC . His journalistic career began as an art critic, from 1942 he took over the post of film critic with the New Republic.

Farber published his film reviews in various magazines, the left The New Republic and The Nation (1949-1954), 1949-50 also in the popular magazine TIME , where the writer James Agee was a film critic. Underground Films appeared in Commentary , White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art , his most famous article in 1962 in the avant-garde magazine Film Culture . He also wrote for the men's magazine Cavalier . In 1966 he switched to Artforum . Meanwhile divorced twice, he met the painter Patricia Patterson, with whom he lived until his death and worked as a writer and painter.

Donald Phelps has been collecting Faber's reviews since 1969 and published Negative Space in 1971 with selected film reviews . In the 1970s, Farber and Patricia Patterson wrote together for Film Comment and in 1975 for Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine about Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog , Duras and the Straubs, Rivette and Chantal Akerman . His last film review appeared in 1977.

In 1969 he first taught at the New York Film School, then moved to California, where he built up the film studies program at the University of California Art School in San Diego , where he worked until 1987. Jean-Pierre Gorin , a companion of Jean-Luc Godard , joined the faculty in 1975. For Gorin's second US-American film Routine Pleasures (German: Einefahrene Träume ) from 1986, about the world of model railroaders, Farber's aesthetics and his paintings were decisive. He focused on teaching and painting in the 1980s. Farber had his first solo exhibition as a painter in 1957 at Tibor de Nagy in New York and the first museum exhibition in La Jolla .

Awards

  • 1999: Special Award from the New York Film Critics Circle Awards
  • 2003: Mel Novikoff Award at the San Francisco International Film Festival

Fonts

  • 1969: For Now , no.9, Donald Phelps, ed
  • 1971: Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies
  • 1998: Negative Space: Manny Farber on the Movies , expanded new edition

Catalogs

  • 1978: Amy Goldin, Richard Armstrong: Manny Farber . La Jolla, CA .: La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art
  • 1985: Manny Farber: The Museum of Contemporary Art , Los Angeles
  • 1993: About Looking, Manny Farber Paintings 1984-1993
  • 2003: Two for the Road: Sketchbooks of Patricia Patterson and Manny Farber
  • 2003: About Face

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Manny Farber in the New York Times (English)

swell

  • Donald Phelps: Critic going Everywhere! , For Now , No. 9, 1969. Repr. In Framework . 40th 1999
  • Richard Thompson: Interview with Manny Farber, Film Comment , May – June, 1977. Repr. In Manny Farber, Negative Space, extended new edition
  • Leah Ollman: Farber on Farber , Art in America, Oct. 2004, on bnet
  • Jonathan Rosenbaum: They Drive By Night, The Criticism of Manny Farber . In: JR: Placing Movies. The Practice of Film Criticism .
  • Noel King (Ed.): Manny Farber . In: Framework . April 40, 1999. Writings by and on Manny Farber
personal data
SURNAME Farber, Manny
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Farber, Emanuel (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American film critic and painter
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Douglas , Arizona
DATE OF DEATH August 18, 2008
Place of death Leucadia , California