The amazing voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel [videorecording] / Steve Fagin. [1986]

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The amazing voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel [videorecording] / Steve Fagin. [1986]

"The amazing voyage of Gustave Flaubert and Raymond Roussel is a feature-length video essay/narrative organized around the writings and lives of two solipsistic, indulgent, maternally obsessed personalities who, as it has been said of Balzac, 'saw nothing but remembered everything.' The mood of the tape fluctuates from vaudeville to opera and the narrative unfolds in the form of letters, diary entries, and postcards - all fictitious"--Screening announcement.

2 videocassettes of 2 (U-Matic) (76 min.) : sd., col. ; 3/4 in. original.

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Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880

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Epithet: novelist British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000208.0x0002a1 French writer. From the description of Travel notes, ca. 1851. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 80148606 Gustave Flaubert, a 19th century French novelist, known primarily for his first novel Madame Bovary, published in 1857 and for his collected letters. From the description of Doria: manuscript, [ca. 1851]. (Temple...

Fagin, Steve.

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Roussel, Raymond, 1877-1933

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Long Beach museum of art

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The Long Beach Museum of Art (LBMA) was among the first to focus on video as an artistic medium, spurring similar efforts throughout the United States. Beginning in 1974 the museum began collecting and exhibiting video art, later also actively encouraging the development of video art by co-producing projects and offering editing facilities to artists in its Video Annex. The museum's innovative approaches to the display of video art included several experiments with broadcast and cable television...