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This is a film about the postwar New York art scene featuring interviews with de Kooning, Rauschenberg, Stella, Poons, Johns, Motherwell, Warhol and others. It was a scene that de Antonio knew intimately. In line with his oeuvre, de Antonio saw this film as political. It was made with enthusiasm for the artists and their art but also with an awareness of the contradictions: commodification involving a network of two or three thousand people - the painters, the collectors, the owners and the dealers - although this is no more than implicit in the film.
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Collection
In ACMI's collection
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
322450
Language
English
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
Crafts & Visual Arts → Abstract expressionism
Crafts & Visual Arts → Art - Collectors and collecting
Crafts & Visual Arts → Artists - United States
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painters - United States
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Modern
Crafts & Visual Arts → Painting, Modern - 20th century - United States
Crafts & Visual Arts → Warhol, Andy, 1928-1987
Documentary → Documentary films - United States
Educational & Instructional → Instructional
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Black and White and Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)