Here's a chance to own a rare piece of visual music or experimental film history. Center for Visual Music's online Benefit Auction is underway, ending in a few days on Wednesday, June 25.
http://centerforvisualmusic.org/2014SilentAuction/ See Page 2 for lower priced books, posters, ephemera, flipbooks and more. <http://centerforvisualmusic.org/2014SilentAuction> <https://www.facebook.com/notes/center-for-visual-music/cvms-artfilm-auction-ends-wed-june-25/10152554940806057> Contemporary work includes signed artwork by Jordan Belson (1998), a drawing by Steve Roden, a digital print by Robert Seidel, prints by Christina McPhee, a photograph by filmmaker/photographer Amy Halpern, a giclee print of a Lumiagraph composition by George Stadnik, and an archival pigment print by Michael Friend. All of the works are signed by the artist. Plus two 16mm film prints by Stan Brakhage. A vintage silver gelatin photograph by Hy Hirsh is also offered, from CVM's extensive Hirsh photography collection. One section of the auction features posters, books, dozens of flipbooks and more, including the extremely rare Quest for Serenity, signed by author Gregory Markopolous (from the Elfriede Fischinger Collection), a vintage LACMA James Whitney poster, a Neon Park/Chick Strand Oasis poster, William Moritz's Optical Poetry (signed), a flyer from Moritz's Midaswel 1970s performances, an original program from a Fischinger Lumigraph performance in San Francisco at the end of Art in Cinema, a rare Walter Ruttmann monograph, a John Whitney Pioneer laserdisc, and more. The auction features several works by Oskar Fischinger, oils, watercolor and charcoal on paper, including a rare,* Untitled *watercolor from 1944, animation art from the film *Squares* (1934), and a 1931 animation drawing from *Studie nr. 8*. Another rare, featured item is an original advertising poster from the final series of the legendary Vortex Concerts, 1959, by Jordan Belson and Henry Jacobs at Morrison Planetarium. Proceeds will benefit CVM's programs including film preservation and digitization, particularly works by Fischinger and Belson. The auction concludes June 25, 2014. Bids are accepted via email to cvmaccess at gmail dot com. CVM is a 501(c)3 California non-profit organization. Good luck bidding! http://centerforvisualmusic.org/2014SilentAuction/ Cindy Keefer Center for Visual Music www.centerforvisualmusic.org Reply to: cvmaccess at gmail.com <http://centerforvisualmusic.org/2014SilentAuction/>
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