Discovery in a Landscape
Following his use of art, painting and sculpture, in his work of the previous decades, Hurwitz took on a project for the American Foundation of the Arts aimed on deepening and enriching, for art students, the way in which we see. Working with his second wife, the editor Peggy Lawson, he made four short films comprising The Art of Seeing Series. The films, made without words, are beautiful poems to the pleasure of sight.
This is a transfer from a 1-inch tape made in the 1980’s
Leo Hurwitz and Peggy Lawson
Year
1970
Runtime
20 minutes
Format
16mm
Collaborators
THE AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ARTS
presents
DISCOVERY IN A LANDSCAPE
A FILM BY LEO HURWITZ
consultants:
RUDOLPH ARNHEIM
ALICE KAPLAN
ROY MOYER
associates:
PEGGY LAWSON
PETER ELISCU
THOMAS HURWITZ
music by
JIMMY GIUFFRE
this film was made possible by
a grant from THE FORD FOUNDATION
A LEO HURWITZ PRODUCTION