A school of seeing
Walter Benjamin formulated the concept that sensory perceptions, too, were conditioned by changes in historical and sociological trends. Peter Bradtke has painted large-format canvasses based on individual frames of an 8-mm film...
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Moveless Movies
Glance through the final chapter of the general catalog which the Museum of Modern Art in New York publishes; there the reader is informed about the museum’s film collection, and looking at...
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Strangers in the Night
After some ten years we again encounter Peter Bradtke in Berlin. He comes to us now as an “American” or, at least, as a German living in America who has been absorbed...
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From a cinematic perspective: An examination of new paintings
One of the predominant qualities inherent in Modernist literature is the way in which writers depict scenes from a cinematic point of view. It is as though they are describing the action,...
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