The Sun and Richard Lippold
In this short masterpiece, Leo Hurwitz investigates the relationship between life experience and the creation of a work of art — here the effulgent sculpture, The Sun, by Richard Lippold. It is a visual essay on how the sun in our eyes, the eyes of our fellow humans, the experience of our cultures and our arts, connects to the sun in the work of the artist.
This film was preserved at the George Eastman Museum.
Leo Hurwitz
Year
1966
Runtime
29 minutes
Format
16mm
Collaborators
NET presents
USA:
ARTISTS
THE SUN and
RICHARD LIPPOLD
a film by LEO HURWITZ
Lippold’s “Sun”
courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art
other art material courtesy
Graphis, Orion Press, Spring House Press
organ played by
- POWER BIGGS
DANIEL PINKHAM
(Courtesy Columbia Records)
RICHARD LIPPOLD
executive producer
LANE SLATE
production assistant
PETER ELISCU
additional photography
GERT BERLINER
associate producer
cameraman
MANFRED KIRCHHEIMER
produced
directed
written
by LEO HURWITZ
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Television and Radio Center. All rights reserved.
