Description
Drawing especially on the encounters and relationships that defined her exceptional career, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda outlines a sustainable legacy for the celebrated director and visual artist. Over nine chapters, it unpacks how creation, connection, and environment form the core of Varda's artistry, which centers foremost on relationships with her family, with other artists, even with passersby she would meet in her travels around the world. Also celebrating her feminist legacy, the chapters cover a wide range, from the classic Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962) to documentaries The Beaches of Agnes (2008) and Faces Places (2017) as well as selected art installations. The book's final section is dedicated to teaching Varda's work; here, ten scholars from around the world consider how Varda's art and feminist pedagogies offer unique ways to bring crucial concepts into the classroom. By seeking a sustainable praxis to discuss and teach Varda's work, and by making pedagogical concerns an explicit part of this approach, this book argues that Varda's insights about the nature of creative work will inspire new generations of viewers and audiences.
A synthesis of original scholarship and personal reflections on the work of Agnes Varda, which highlights her lasting impact on feminist pedagogy in several disciplines.
About the Author
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat teaches film and media studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Feride Cicekoglu is Director of Graduate Programs in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
Reviews
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda constitutes a magnificent critical tribute to the work of a filmmaker who turned cinema into an art of encountering. Arguing that her legacy extends beyond her filmography, through an ethical and political vision of art worth examining, the contributors of this book remained faithful to the memory of a woman and an artist committed to her time. -- Luc Vancheri, Lumiere University Lyon 2, France
Throughout the volume, the overall question - how to sustain joy in Varda's legacy - is met with nuanced and perceptive analysis. The collection offers new perspectives, not least through critique, for example in Jennifer Stob's illuminating essay on Varda's formalist feminism, in which she argues that Varda both 'reveals the patriarchal structure that collapses representational space and the feminine', and 'confirms and reproduces its formalist myth'... This collection is an indispensable tool for Varda teachers, scholars, and fans, and it delightfully fulfils the task of sustaining and renewing Varda's legacy. -- Ros Murray * French Studies *
Inquisitive moving-image artist par excellence, Agnes Varda receives here an expansive and multifaceted treatment, one that matches the range and generosity of her own work. These essays revise and open out our understanding of a cinema that both depicts and embodies sustenance. -- Girish Shambu, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA
In framing its collection of essays in terms of sustainability, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda offers a timely intervention in feminist criticism in visual studies. Varda's work lends itself beautifully to these eco-critical analyses, which collectively sustain meticulous attention to Varda's elaborations of embodiment, space, and place across her oeuvre. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781350240940
Author Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
A synthesis of original scholarship and personal reflections on the work of Agnes Varda, which highlights her lasting impact on feminist pedagogy in several disciplines.
About the Author
Colleen Kennedy-Karpat teaches film and media studies at Bilkent University in Ankara, Turkey. Feride Cicekoglu is Director of Graduate Programs in Film and Television at Istanbul Bilgi University, Turkey.
Reviews
The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda constitutes a magnificent critical tribute to the work of a filmmaker who turned cinema into an art of encountering. Arguing that her legacy extends beyond her filmography, through an ethical and political vision of art worth examining, the contributors of this book remained faithful to the memory of a woman and an artist committed to her time. -- Luc Vancheri, Lumiere University Lyon 2, France
Throughout the volume, the overall question - how to sustain joy in Varda's legacy - is met with nuanced and perceptive analysis. The collection offers new perspectives, not least through critique, for example in Jennifer Stob's illuminating essay on Varda's formalist feminism, in which she argues that Varda both 'reveals the patriarchal structure that collapses representational space and the feminine', and 'confirms and reproduces its formalist myth'... This collection is an indispensable tool for Varda teachers, scholars, and fans, and it delightfully fulfils the task of sustaining and renewing Varda's legacy. -- Ros Murray * French Studies *
Inquisitive moving-image artist par excellence, Agnes Varda receives here an expansive and multifaceted treatment, one that matches the range and generosity of her own work. These essays revise and open out our understanding of a cinema that both depicts and embodies sustenance. -- Girish Shambu, Canisius College, Buffalo, USA
In framing its collection of essays in terms of sustainability, The Sustainable Legacy of Agnes Varda offers a timely intervention in feminist criticism in visual studies. Varda's work lends itself beautifully to these eco-critical analyses, which collectively sustain meticulous attention to Varda's elaborations of embodiment, space, and place across her oeuvre. -- Sharon Willis, University of Rochester, USA
Book Information
ISBN 9781350240940
Author Colleen Kennedy-Karpat
Format Paperback
Page Count 224
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
