Looking for Bruce Conner Kevin Hatch
Publisher: MIT Press

Abstract: Bruce Conner first gained the attention of the art world in the early 1960s for works created from castoff materials bound together with stretches of nylon. Bruce Conner: Inkblot Drawings Engraving Coll $20.00. Bruce Conner: Looking for Bruce Conner. DVD of two films by Bruce Conner : "Crossroads" and "Looking for Mushrooms." Music by Patrick Gleeson and Terry Riley. Bruce Conner (1933–2008) was a protean artist, who achieved Looking at the ' Geryon' drawing, I think of the drawings and Mervyn Peake. Bruce Conner's 1961 short film COSMIC RAY is about a lot of stuff: sex, DIY work, COSMIC RAY feels new despite looking really really old. Although Conner initially worked with paint and collage, in the late 1950s he began to integrate abandoned and discarded objects in work. I'm tipping you off now to the 'big reveal' in this piece: never-before-seen pictures of the back of Bruce Conner's LOOKING GLASS, below. Looking for Bruce Conner is Kevin Hatch's loving biography of the San Francisco artist, whose career and influences Hatch tracks with a fine-toothed comb. In his new book on artist and filmmaker Bruce Conner, Kevin Hatch seeks to re- position Conner as a major figure in mid- to late twentieth-century art. Bruce Conner, Frankie Fix , 1997, photocopy on Bristol paper and mixed media even when it's changing, he has a strange instinct for what it is he's looking for.