R. Bruce Elder
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Since 1975, R. Bruce Elder has been building two formidable bodies of work, as an artist working in the experimental tradition, and as an author of critical texts on art and cinema. His artistic achievements were recognized in 2007 with a Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts, Canada’s most prestigious award in those field, and was elected to the Royal Society of Canada. Jonas Mekas, founder of the New York Filmmakers Co-op and principle visionary of the American avant-garde cinema, has dubbed him “the most important North American avant-garde filmmaker to emerge during the 1980s.” Something similar could be said of Elder’s monumental works of art criticism. His role as an author has in recent years assumed the task of charting the relationship between cinema and art movements through the twentieth century, as we see in his recent book, DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect, his previous, Harmony & Dissent: Film and Avant-garde Art Movements in the Early Twentieth Century, and the forthcoming Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect. In 2009, he received the Robert Motherwell Book Award from the Dedalus Foundation for Harmony + Dissent.
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1857 (Fool's Gold) (1981)
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Crack, Brutal Grief (2000)
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 2: The Lighted Clearing (1988)
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Et Resurrectus Est (1994)
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Illuminated Texts (1982)
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Sweet Love Remembered (1980)
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Lamentations: A Monument for the Dead World (1985)
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The Art of Worldly Wisdom (1979)
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A Gathering of Crystals (2015)
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What Troubles the Peace at Brandenburg? (2011)
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Newton and Me (1991)
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A Man Whose Life Was Full of Woe Has Been Surprised by Joy (1997)
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Infunde Lumen Cordibus (2004)
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Eros and Wonder (2003)
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Barbara is a Vision of Loveliness (1976)
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Consolations (Love is an Art of Time) (1988)
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Alone: All Flesh Shall See It Together (2024)
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 2: The Sublime Calculation (1985)
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Burying the Dead (Into the Light) (1993)
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She Is Away (1975)
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Permutations and Combinations (1976)
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 1: The Fugitive Gods (1988)
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Exultations: In Light of the Great Giving (1993)
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Look! We Have Come Through! (1978)
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Trace (1980)
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Breath/Light/Birth (1975)
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Azure Serene (1992)
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Flesh Angels (1990)
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Consolations (Love Is an Art of Time) Part 3: The Body and the World (1988)
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Lamentations: A Monument to the Dead World, Part 1: The Dream of the Last Historian (1985)
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Unremitting Tenderness (1977)
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Return to Nature! The True Natural Method of Healing and Living and the True Salvation of the Soul: Paradise Regained—The Core of the Body—Water, Human Curative Power, Light, Air, Earth, Food, Fruit Culture (2012)
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The Young Prince (2007)
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