Bruce Conner

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Bruce Conner (born November 18, 1933 in McPherson , Kansas , USA ; † July 7, 2008 in San Francisco ) was an American avant-garde artist. He was considered an American film pioneer.

Life

Bruce Conner studied 1951/1952 at Wichita State University and made his bachelor's degree at the University of Nebraska in 1956 . He then studied at the Brooklyn Museum Art School and the University of Colorado , where he also met his future wife, the artist Jean Sandstedt . He became internationally known in the late 1950s with his avant-garde sculptures made of nylon stockings, furniture parts, broken dolls and other wealthy garbage. In 1958 he showed his "A Movie", an experimental film made from found film material, which achieved cult status and was the forerunner of today's video clips . Films like “Cosmic Ray” (1961), “Report” (1967), “Crossroads” (1976) and almost twenty others followed.

Along with Stan Brakhage , Ken Jacobs , Jonas Mekas and Andy Warhol, Conner was one of the stars of the underground film scene of the late 1950s and 1960s. In 1988 he received the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Independent Film and Video Artists Award .

Exhibitions

literature

  • William C. Wees: Recycled Images. The art and politics of found footage films . Anthology Film Archives, New York 1993

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personal data
SURNAME Conner, Bruce
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American avant-garde artist
DATE OF BIRTH November 18, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH McPherson , Kansas
DATE OF DEATH July 7, 2008
Place of death San Francisco