Manny Farber
Emanuel " Manny" Farber ( born February 20, 1917 in Douglas, Arizona; † August 18, 2008 in Leucadia, California ) was an American painter and film critic.
Life
Farber grew up in Arizona to near the Mexican border. He was the youngest of three brothers, both later known psychoanalyst. The family moved to California when he was 15 years old. Farber studied at the University of California, Stanford University and San Francisco, there especially at the Rudolph Schaeffer School of Design. However, he worked in the 1930s not only as a painter but also in Washington DC as a carpenter. His journalistic career began as an art critic, from 1942, he took over the post as film critic for the New Republic.
Farber published his movie reviews in various magazines, the left The New Republic and The Nation (1949 - 54), 1949-50 also in the popular magazine TIME, in which the writer James Agee was a film critic. Underground film appeared in 1957 in Commentary, White Elephant Art vs.. Termite Art, his most famous essay in 1962 in the avant -garde magazine Film Culture. He also wrote for the men's magazine Cavalier. In 1966 he moved to Artforum. Meanwhile, twice divorced, he met the artist Patricia Patterson, with whom he lived until his death and worked as a writer and as a painter.
Donald Phelps collected since 1969 Faber's reviews and in 1971 published Negative Space with selected film reviews. In the 1970s, Farber and Patricia Patterson co-wrote for the film Comment and 1975 for Francis Ford Coppola's City Magazine about Rainer Werner Fassbinder and Werner Herzog, Duras and Straub, Rivette and Chantal Akerman. His last film criticism appeared in 1977.
In 1969, he taught first at the New York Film Academy, then moved to California, where he established the film studies program at the School of Art of the University of California at San Diego, where he worked until 1987. Jean -Pierre Gorin, a companion of Jean -Luc Godard, 1975 came to the faculty. For Gorins second U.S. film Routine Pleasures ( German: Retracted dreams) from 1986, about the world of model railroaders, Farber's aesthetics and his paintings were crucial. He focused in the 1980s on teaching and on his painting. Farber had his first solo exhibition as a painter in 1957 at Tibor de Nagy in New York and the first museum exhibition in La Jolla.