Re: Margaret Tait

From: Carl Bogner (email suppressed)
Date: Tue Sep 06 2005 - 23:03:40 PDT


Weird, as your email arrived, I had open this great volume LUX
published to accompany the series:
"Subjects and Sequences: A Margaret Tait Reader" (LUX, 2994, 0954856902),
edited by Peter Todd and Ben Cook

Check it out.

I got the book thru Inter Library Loan; the films should be coming
from LUX and thru Milwaukee next month

>Just viewed a selection of Margaret Tait's film poems (new prints
>funded by Lux) at the Pacific Film Archive. There were some
>beautiful moments tucked away in these short films. I somehow
>imagine a kind of agnes martin type hermit releasing the ego and
>working in relative anonymity. I know nothing about Tait, other than
>what I can find in this sparse show program... anyone have any
>interesting stories or facts that could shed light on this body of
>work?
>
>Steven
>
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