Critical Writing Index

Autobiography: Real By Reel

by Landon MacKenzie

Parachute, Spring 1979, no. 14, pp. 29-31

This article discusses a symposium, held at the Art Gallery of Ontario, that examined the tendency to use personal information in art. Focusing mainly on film, but including a series of videotapes selected by Peggy Gale, the works presented at the symposium and discussed in this article are considered part of the genre known as autobiographical art.

ITEM 1979.021 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Film About A Woman Who...Yvonne Rainer

Not A Pretty PictureMartha Coolidge

Sincerity I, II and IIIStan Brakhage

Joe and MaxiMaxi Cohen

Diaries, Notes and SketchesJonas Mekas

DiariesEd Pincus

West Coast PortraitDavid Rimmer

She is AwayBruce Elder

Rose's HouseClay Borris

NostalgiaHollis Frampton

Side Seat Painting Slides Sound FilmMichael Snow

Home MoviesVito Acconci

Recording Studio from Air TimeVito Acconci