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November 2009 Field Guide

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This summer the films of the acclaimed painter and cineast Alfred Leslie finally became available on DVD. Released in June by the nonprofit international arts agency LUX and with a launch event planned at MoMA this December, Alfred Leslie, Cool Man in a Golden Age, Selected Films showcases some of the artist’s pivotal works. The collection includes Pull My Daisy (1959), a short black-and-white piece codirected with the photographer Robert Frank and starring Jack Kerouac. Also on the disk are The Last Clean Shirt (1964), the avant-garde film Leslie wrote with poet Frank O’Hara about a man and woman driving around Manhattan in their convertible; a rare television documentary from 1966 featuring Leslie and O’Hara; and a new essay penned by the artist Ian White to accompany the dvd — all offering the viewer a fresh perspective on the moviemaker’s life. After viewing Leslie’s selected films, look out for lux’s fall release, Rewind+Play, an Anthology of Early British Video Art, which contains more than 24 videos produced in the ’70s and early ’80s by a diverse group of artists, including John Adams, Tamara Krikorian, and Stuart Marshall.

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"Alfred Leslie: Cool Man in a Golden Age" originally appeared in the November 2009 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' November 2009 Table of Contents.