This is awful news not just because Manny Farber is arguably one of, if not the best American film critic but I know a really good friend of his that is probably taking this pretty hard. It was disappointing knowing that I missed his lectures at UCSD by a couple of years but I take pleasure in that the DVDs I copied somehow made it to him.
08.18.08
Manny Farber, an American painter and film critic, has died. A contributor to the New Republic, Time, The Nation, Film Comment, and Artforum, Farber’s reviews of and essays on films were compiled in several collections, including Negative Space. An early champion of American B movies, in 1962 Farber coined the phrase “termite art” to describe art that “seems to have no ambitions toward gilt culture” and “leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.” Susan Sontag once said, “Manny Farber is the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country has ever produced . . . [his] mind and eye change the way you see.” As a painter, Farber was as restless as the films he championed in his writing, and moved from abstraction to narrative work in the 1970s and '80s. A retrospective of his paintings originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2003 and traveled to the Austin Museum of Art and the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. Farber’s art is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
08.18.08
Manny Farber, an American painter and film critic, has died. A contributor to the New Republic, Time, The Nation, Film Comment, and Artforum, Farber’s reviews of and essays on films were compiled in several collections, including Negative Space. An early champion of American B movies, in 1962 Farber coined the phrase “termite art” to describe art that “seems to have no ambitions toward gilt culture” and “leaves nothing in its path other than the signs of eager, industrious, unkempt activity.” Susan Sontag once said, “Manny Farber is the liveliest, smartest, most original film critic this country has ever produced . . . [his] mind and eye change the way you see.” As a painter, Farber was as restless as the films he championed in his writing, and moved from abstraction to narrative work in the 1970s and '80s. A retrospective of his paintings originated at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in 2003 and traveled to the Austin Museum of Art and the P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center in New York. Farber’s art is in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
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