P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University.

Praise for previous editions of Visionary Film: Without question it is the first such book on the avant-garde film--the first one that probes this field in such depth, with such perspective and vision, with such insight and intelligence.

• 1: Meshes of the Afternoon 2: Ritual and Nature 3: The Potted Psalm 4: The Magus 5: From Trance to Myth 6: The Lyrical Film 7: Major Mythopoeia 8: Absolute Animation 9: The Graphic Cinema: European Perspectives 10: Apocalypses and Picaresques 11: Recovered Innocence 12: Structural Film 13: The Seventies 14: The End of the 20th Century Notes Index

P. Adams Sitney is Professor of Visual Art at Princeton University.

Praise for previous editions of Visionary Film: Without question it is the first such book on the avant-garde film--the first one that probes this field in such depth, with such perspective and vision, with such insight and intelligence.

• 1: Meshes of the Afternoon 2: Ritual and Nature 3: The Potted Psalm 4: The Magus 5: From Trance to Myth 6: The Lyrical Film 7: Major Mythopoeia 8: Absolute Animation 9: The Graphic Cinema: European Perspectives 10: Apocalypses and Picaresques 11: Recovered Innocence 12: Structural Film 13: The Seventies 14: The End of the 20th Century Notes Index