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Books, catalogues, publications and press (selection)

2023

Aichi Triennale 2022: STILL ALIVE, Edited by Aichi Triennale Organizing Committee, released by Kokushokankokai Inc., Japan

2021

United States of Abstraction, Artistes américains en France, 1946-1964, Musée Fabre - Montpellier, Musée d’art - Nantes

2020

The Paradox of Stillness, edited by Vincenzo de Bellis, Walker Art Center Minneapolis

2019

Robert Breer, A à Z’ Light Cone Editions (Book)

Teaching with films, by Holly Willis, Los Angeles Review of books

2018

E.A.T. (Experiments in Art and Technology): Open Ended, edited by Dekosun Park, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA Press, Seoul, South Korea)

Brisante Träume, Die Kunst Der Weltausstellung, Volatile Dreams, Marta Herford Museum

Lessons in Perception, The Avant-Garde Film Maker as Practical Psychologist, Paul Taberham

2017

Les mondes flottants, catalogue Biennale de Lyon

2016

Sur le film, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Editions Macula (pages 278- 290)

2015

E.A.T. Experiments in Art and Technology, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

A Fragile but marvelous life, Aspen Museum

Fomo, Natasha Marie Luthen, Art Review, Vol 67 # N° 7

Experimental animation, Illusions of Depth and Motion in Robert Breer’s Fuji (1974), Paul Taberham, Animationstudies 2.0

Collections du Mac Val, Musée d’art contemporain du Val de Marne

Robert Breer, Scoli Acosta, ParisArt.com

Critics Picks, Joey Tang, Artforum

2014

Live brings art to life, Colin Gleadell, Frieze, (October)

Performance art takes centre stage at Frieze London, Sam Phillips, Royal Academy of Arts

Between the Black Box and the White Cube: Expanded Cinema and Postwar Art, Andrew V. Uroskie, University of Chicago Press.

ZERO, Countdown to Tomorrow 1950-60’s, Guggenheim Museum Publication

Soleil Politique, Museion, Bolzano

Forms of distancing representative politics and the politics of representation, Mousse Publishing

Cinéma expérimental, l’Abécédaire pour une contre culture, Raphaël Bassan, Yellow Now

New York Times, Roberta Smith (February)

Critic’s Pick, Jason Farago, Artforum, (February)

2013

A search engine for art, Charlotte Burns, Gareth Harris and Cristina Ruiz, The Art Newspaper International Edition, (May)

Robert Breer remue les murs, Eric Loret, Libération, (September)

Robert Breer ou l’illusion du mouvement, Eric Loret, Le Quotidien de l’Art, (October)

2012

New Kunst in Antwerpen, 1958-1962, M HKA 2012

Robert Breer 1926-2011, by Claes Oldenburg, Art Forum (January)

Robert Breer, l’abstraction avant tout, Vincent Noce, Libération, (January)

2011

Breer Hommage Suisse, Bénédicte Ramade, L’oeil # 644

Robert Breer, Bernard Marcelis, ArtPress #375

Robert Breer, Bénédicte Ramade, L’œil #631

Bild für Bild - Film und zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung des Centre Pompidou, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund

Robert Breer, Frieze, Issue # 136, Laura Hoptman

La Grâce de la nonchalance, Robert Breer, sculptures flottantes, Rozenn Canevet, 02 #57

Thoughts and memories after Robert Breer’s death, blog Ways of seeing, (August)

US artist Robert Breer dies aged 85, BBC news, (August)

Robert Breer has died at age 85, Cartoonselt, (August)

Décès de l’artiste américain Robert Breer, Artclair.com, September)

Experimental animator Robert Breer Dies at 85, Animation magazine, (August)

Robert Breer, avant garde Animator, dies at 84, blogs.walkerart.org, (August)

Hommage à Robert Breer, pionnier de l’animation, Kevin Holmes, Thecreatorsproject.com, (August)

In Memory of Animator Robert Breer, Holly Willis, Kcet.org, (August)

Robert Breer (1926-2011): le mouvement contrepoint des histoires, Élisabeth Lebovici, Le Beau Vice, (August)

Décès de Robert Breer, Elisa Fedeli, Paris-art.com, (August)

Remembering Robert Breer and Donald Krim, Daniel Eagan, (September)

RIP Robert Breer, Panic Films at Panic Films, (August)

Robert Breer : la disparition d’une âme flottante, Sophie Mahon, Connaissancedesarts.com, (August)

Robert Breer, The Telegraph, (August)

Robert Breer obituary, William Fowler, Guardian.co.uk, (September)

Robert Breer Pioneering Experimental Artist Dies At 85, ArtLyst, (August)

Robert Breer, 1926-2011, David Hudson, Mubi.com/notebook, (August)

Robert Breer, 1926-2011, New York news blog.villagevoice.com/runningscared, (August)

Robert Breer, 1926-2011, Meta Filter, (August)

Robert Breer, artist known for avant-garde animation, William Grimes, Boston.com, (August)

Robert Breer Pioneer of Avant-Garde Animation, Dies at 84, William Grimes, New York Times.com, (August)

US artist Robert Breer dies aged 85, Zambezi fm radio: 107,7FM, (August)

Robert Breer, Sculptures flottantes, Jêrome Dupeyrat, Printemps 2011

2010

Everything Goes, An interview with Robert Breer, Michelle Kuo, Artforum, (November)

Engineering Uncertainty, Simone Menegoi, Kaléidoscope, Issue # 5

Le Mouvement. Du cinéma à la cinétique, Tinguely Museum, Basel

New Realisms: 1957-1962. Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid

Vente d’artistes inclassables, Roxana Azimi, Le Monde

Aconversation between Robert Breer and Mark Geffriaud, Art Basel

2009

First Stop on the Super Highway, Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul

Joyous Machines: Michael Landy and Jean Tinguely, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

A Mancha Humana/ The Human Stain, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela

CHHTTT… Le Merveilleux dans l’Art Contemporain: 2ème volet, Crac Alsace

2008

37 ème du Film Festival international de Rotterdam

Du Machinique et du Vivant , Régis Durand, La Réserve, Pacy sur Eure

2007

Poor Thing, Kunsthalle, Basel

Collection Art Contemporain, La collection du Centre Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

 Possible Words, edited by Adam Pugh, Aurora 2007

The films of Robert Breer, Fred Camper, Aurora

Un coup de pouce au cinéma de poche, Martine Valo, Le Monde 2, n°160

Animation Studies - Animated Dialogue, Performing a traumatic Effect, Dyrk de Bruyn

Robert Breer Interviewed by David Curtis Cinema City, Norwich UK, (November)

2006

Robert Breer, Films, Floats & Panoramas, Editions de l’oeil

Le mouvement des images, Musée d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

L’Essor Savoyard n°14, Exposition Musée du Château d’Annecy, Régine Rémond

Willa Warszawa, Rastern edition

Daumen Kino, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf

Robert Breer, Jean-Max Colard, Les Inrockuptibles, Issue # 549, (June)

2005

Robert Breer, Déplacements furtifs, Fabienne Fulchéri, Artea, Issue # 20, (July)

L’œil Moteur, Art Optique et Cinétique, 1950-1975, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg

2004

Critic’s Picks : Robert Breer, Vivian Rehberg, Artforum (May)

Sculpture de la glisse, Judicaël Lavrador, Les Inrockuptibles, Issue # 441

Carnegie International, New York Times, (April)

Genesis Sculpture Experience #1, Domaine Pommery, Reims / Beaux Arts Magazine

2004 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

KG Hulten Collection, Stockholm, Ottowa Film Festival

Links, gb agency, by Pierre Juhasz, Paris-Art.com

Mouvements de Fonds, Les Cahiers du FNAC, #5,  Centre de la vieille Charité, M.A.C

Slow Motion…, Thomas Clerc, Magasine 02, N°28

Modernism wasn’t so American after all, Michael Kimmelman, NewYork Times, (July)

Beyond Geometry : Experiments in Form, 1940-1970, County Museum, Los Angeles

A Global Cacophony, Cristopher Knight, L.A. Times

2003

Re Creation : Films by Robert Breer, New Zealand Film Festival

French Collection, Les Cahiers di Fnac, #2, Mamco Genève

Seeing, Watching, Filming, screenings ‘A Man and his Dog Out For Air’ and ‘What Goes Up ?’, 33rd International Film Festival, Rotterdam

2002

Robert Breer : gb agency, Guitemie Maldonado, Artforum (January)

Promenade, … exposition Links, Damien Sausset, Art Press, N° 296

Inside the Sixties, Véronique d’Auzac de Lamartine, Kunst-Bulletin

E-motion, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Rétrospective des films de Robert Breer, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée National d’Art Moderne

Inside the Sixties: GP 1.2.3, Musée Cantonnal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne

Dessins, projection de films, Le Lieu Unique, Nantes

2001

ça bouge tout seul !, Alexis Vaillant, Kunst-Bulletin,

Robert Breer, Une armée flottante, Françoise-Aline Blain, Beaux-Arts Magazine, Issue # 208

Les années Pop, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Promenade… Robert Breer, gb agency, Charles-Arthur Boyer, Art Press, N° 273

Animations : The Animated Reflex, Karyn Riegel, Journal d’exposition P.S.1 MoMA

Projections E-Motion, Hommage à Robert Breer, E. Lequeux, Aden-Le Monde

Jeune, Dure et Pure !, Editions Cinémathèque Française and Editions Mazzotta

2000

Robert Breer, AC Project Room, Frazer Ward, Frieze Magazine, Issue # 55

Robert Breer at Staff USA, Sid Sachs, Art in America, (October)

Robert Breer: Staff USA, Roberta Smith, The New York Times, (January)

Hommage à Robert Breer, Cinémathèque Française, Paris

Robert Breer, Johnson, The New York Times, (June)

Breer on Breer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Experimental Animator Robert Breer Comes to Campus, Jason Haas, The Wesleyan, (March)

 virtual shows, Nicolas Bourriaud, Documents sur L’art, n°12,

1999

Robert Breer, Jennifer Burford ; Editions Paris expérimental and RE-Voir

Robert Breer : un atypique de l’avant-garde, Raphaël Bassan, Bref Magazine, N°40, (Spring)

Oops, Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble; l’Elac, Espace Lausannois d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne.

Eloge du Cinéma experimental, Dominique Noguez, Paris Expérimental.

Kunst im Aubruch, Abstraktion zwischen 1945 und 1959, Wilhelm Hack-Museum Ludwighafen am Rhein

1998

Scratch Book 83/98

Vers une Radicalisation du mouvement et de la continuité. Robert Breer, peintre sculpteur et cinéaste, Jennifer Burford, Presses Universitaire du Septentrion, Villeneuve d’Ascq

1997

On Visible Strings: Films by Robert Breer, Fred Camper, Chicago Reader, (June)

The Exploding Eye, Wheeler W. Dixon, State University of New York Press

1996

L’art du Mouvement, 1919-1996, Collection Cinématographique, Patrick de Haas, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris

1995

Beat Culture and the New America 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Film Image, Electronic Image: The Construction of Abstraction 1960-1990, John Hanhardt, Visible Language, vol 29 #2

1992

Un Nouveau Cinema Américain 1959-1971, Paris Experimental / Classiques de l’Avant-Garde, Dominique Noguez, Ciné-Journal

1990

Robert Breer, A Painter in Paris 1949-1959, Billy Kluver and Julie Martin, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris

Rolf Ricke, Festschrift, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln

1989

But First a Little Ru-Ru: An Interview by Robert Breer, The Velvet Light Trap, (Fall)

Recent Films, by Scott McDonald

1988

Cartoons, Marsilio Editori, by Gianalberto Bendazzi

1987

Award for Independent Film and Video Artists, The Maya Deren, The American Film Institute

The Avant - Garde Film, A reader of Theory and Criticism, Edited by P. Adams Sitney

How much pleasure for her Majesty ?, The Independent, (March)

Etch-a-Sketch, Katherine Dieckmann, Voice, (January)

1986

Large ideas in small frames, Chris Farlekas, The Times Herald Record , (November)

1985

Trial Balloons, Ear Magazine, (Fall)

Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

1984

The international Directory of films and filmakers, Vol 2, Chicago St James Press

Robert Breer: Five Dime Animator, Television Film, produced by Largedoor Ltd. and Channel 4 London

1983

Interview with Robert Breer, Yann Beauvais, Scratch, (April)

Five and dime animator, a complete retrospective in context, ICA

Retrospective, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Circles of Confusion Film Photography Video Texts 1968-1980, Visual Studies

Workshop New York, by Hollis Frampton (Foreword by Annette Michelson)

1982

A Man and His Dog Out for Air by Robert Breer, MCC Staff, Young Viewers, Vol 5, (Summer)

Robert Breer: Fuji 77, LMNO and TZ, Fred Camper, 10 Years of Living Cinema, (Oct-Nov)

1981

Millenium film Workshop by Fred Camper, reprinted from audio brandon films

Whitney Biennal, Whintey Museum of Art, New York

1980

Robert Breer, Whitney Museum, Amy Taubin, ArtForum, (September)

Robert Breer’s Animated World, J. Hoberman, American Films, (September)

Robert Breer, a filmmakers filming monograph, Sandy Moore, Minneapolis Walker Art Center

30 ans de Cinema Experimental en France, Dominique Noguez

Robert Breer, Jim Trainor, Upstart, Barnard and Columbia colleges,

On a Breer Day, Amy Taubin, The Soho News, (May)

Breer’s Happy Images, Richard Huntington, Buffalo Courrier Express, (October)

Triekfilm, Chicago Art Institute

Frames of mind, Television Film: Produced by NET

1979

The Other Cinema, Stretching the limits review, Noel Carroll, The Soho Weekly News, (January)

Film as Film, Brigit Hein, Arts council of Great Britain

Éloge du Cinéma Experimental, Dominique Noguez, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Robert Breer’s LMNO, Elena Simon Pinto, Millenium Film Journal, (Summer/Fall)

1978

Robert Breer, Larry Jordan and Harry Smith, Eric Sherman, Flilmex, Los Angeles Art Film Expo program

Robert Breer: A Study of His Work in the Context of the Modernist Tradition, Lois Mendelson, N.Y.U. Department of Cinema Studies, (October)

Serious Business Company, Warren Bass

1977

Beauty In A Gesture: The Films of Breer, Marian Keane, The Thousand Eyes

A Long Last Breer, Amy Taubin, The Soho Weekly News, (April)

A Mixed Bag Of Tricks, J; Hobermann, Village Voice, (January)

Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Paris-New York, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris

New American Filmmakers, John Hanhardt, New York Whitney Museum

Melba, #2,January, Paris

1976

Program, New York Museum of Modern Art, Film Department,

Notes de Paris 1949-1959, by Robert Breer, Centre Georges Pompidou

Films by Robert Breer, D.C., Art+Cinema, Vol II, #2, Visual Ressource Inc

University Film Study Center (newsletter), Independent, (October)

Talking with Robert Breer, Lucy Fischer

Animated Dissection, Fred Camper, The Soho Weekly News, (May)

Experimental Animation, by Robert Russett, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.

A History of the American Avant-Garde Cinema, John Hanhardt, The American Federation of Art New York

Une Histoire du Cinema, Peter Kubelka, Centre Georges Pompidou

1975

The avant-garde of the seventies, Amos Vogel, Film Comment, vol 11 n 3, (May-June)

Avant Garde Film, (Homage to Robert Breer), Lucy Fischer, The Soho Weekly News, (April)

Films of Robert Breer, Karen Cooper, Film Forum, Program notes, (March)

1974

Robert Breer, Art Report, Summer

Gulls and Buoys, an Introduction to the remarkable range of pleasures available from the films of Robert Breer, Scott Hamen, Afterimage

New Forms in Film, Montreux, Annette Michelson

1973

An Interview with Robert Breer, P. Adams Sitney and Jonas Mekas, Film Culture, (Spring)

Intellectual Cinema: A Reconsideration, Annette Michelson, Yale University Art Gallery Catalogue, (April May)

Catalogue: Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

The Avant-Garde Film, A Reader of Theory and Criticism, New York, Oxford University, by P. Adams Sitney

1972

Eds. Pavilion, Billy Kluver, Barbara Rose and Julie Martin

1971

Robert Breer at Bonino Gallery, H.R., Artnews, (January)

VIIe Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d’art Moderne de la ville de Paris

Robert Breer, Bonino Gallery, New York

Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

New York Letter, Carter Ratcliffe, Art international, (January)

Experimental Cinema. A Fifty year Evolution, David Curtis, Studio Vista London, Universe New York

Art and the Artists, Emily Genauer, New York Post, (March)

Occhio Mio Dio. Il New American Cinema, Alfredo Leonardi, Feltrinelli, Milano

The Underground Film, Sheldon Renan, Studio Vista London

1970

New York après le Pop’Art: C.Oldenburg et R.Breer, Franck Jotterand

The New Yorker, XLVI Oct 3, Onward and Upward with the Arts, by Calvin Tomkins

Robert Breer, 93 Floats, Galerie Bonino, New York

Kinetics, Hayward Gallery, London

Expo ‘70, curated by Experiments in Art and Technology, Pepsi Cola Pavilion, Exposition Universelle Osaka

Robert Breer to be shown in Museum Garden, The Museum of Modern Art, (August)

Cineprobe, Donald Richie, New York Museum of Modern Art, (October)

1969

Movie Journal, Jonas Mekas, The Village Voice, (April)

The Machine as Seen at the End of the Mechanical Age, Pontus Hulten, New York Museum of Modern Art

Art of Time: New York, Michael Kirby, EP Dutton

Prix Femme de Max Ernst 1966, Eva Hoffmann, Kurzfilmtage, (April)

1968

The Experience of Kinesis, Michael Kirby, Art News, (February)

Erlosung vom Sockel, Der Spiegel, (March)

The Machine, New York Museum of Modern Art

Robert Breer, Galerie Bonino, Paris

Icons and Image of the Sixties, Nicolas Calas

USA Barock-Minima Das Modern Art Museum, Yvonne Hagen, Neue Kunst, (June)

The Young Film-maker, Elodie Osborne, Art in America, (Jan-Feb)

Minimal Art, Gregory Battcock, EP Dutton

1967

Motionless Motion, Harris Rosenstein, ArtNews, (November)

Robert Breer, More Floats Galerie Bonino, New York

Exchange Show, New York Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo Museum of Modern Art

Light Art, Nan Piene, Art in America, (May-June)

Four Artists as Film-Makers, Adrienne Mancia and Willard Van Dyke, Art in America

The New American Cinema, Gregory Battcock, EP Dutton

Animation in the Cinema, Ralph Stephenson, Zwemmer, London

1966

A Wet Moore, A dry Armada, Grace Glueck, The NewYork Times, (February)

Kinetic And Programmed Art

Robert Breer, Floats, Galerie Bonino, New York

Film and Radical Aspirations, Annette Michelson, Film Culture, (Fall)

Breer at Bonino Gallery, A Review, by William Berkson, Arts XL, (April)

A Montage of Theories, Mc Cann Dutton, Richard Dyer

1965

Direction in Kinetic Sculpture

The Non-Rational Tradition in Modern Art, Ashton Dore, Studio International, (April)

Breer at Bonino Gallery, Donald Judd, Arts, (February)

Robert Breer, Constructions and Films, Alan Solomon, Bonino Gallery

1964

Les Cahiers du Cinéma, (February)

Hard Center, Nicolas and Elena Calas, Gallery Thibaut, New York

Animations, Film Quarterly

The Animals in New York: Keep on Truckin’ Mama, Truckin’ my Blues Away, Sally Kempton, Village Voice, (September)

The Phoenix and The Roadrunner, Robert Benayoun, Film Quarterly, (Spring)

1963

Art / 1963, A New Vocabulary, Arts Council of Philadelphia

Annecy, A.S Labarthe, Les Cahiers du Cinéma

A Statement, Robert Breer, Film Culture, (Summer)

Une Nouvelle Notion de Continuité: Entretien avec Robert Breer, Guy L. Coté, Positif, Issue # 54-55

1962

Interview with Robert Breer, Guy L. Coté, Film Culture

Art 1963 a new vocabulary, Billy Kluver, Philadelphia Arts Council of the YM/YWHA

1961

Robert Breer, Film Quarterly, Vol 14

One Two Films, Robert Breer, Film Culture

1959

Images by Images, Cats, Jamestown Balooes, A Man and His Dog Out For Air, Noel Burch, Film Quarterly, Vol XII,

1958

Libre Cinéma, Journal Radio television Cinema, Paris, (March)

1957

Images in Motion, a painter’s note on cinema, by Robert Breer, The Louisvillian

An Introduction to the American Underground Film, Renan Sheldon, EP. Dutton

1956

Ecran du séminaire des arts, Palais des beaux arts de Bruxelles, Paul Davay

Art and Artists, Barbara Butler, New York Herald Tribune Paris edition, (October)

Robert Breer, The American Students and Art Center, Oct, Michel Seuphor

Brussels: Palais des Beaux Arts ,R. V Grindertael, Les Beaux Arts, (January)

1955

A la Galerie Aujourd’hui Robert Breer, by R.V.G

Le Mouvement, Galerie Denise René, Paris

Le Mouvement, Galerie Denise René and La Cinémathèque Francaise, Roger Bordier

1954

BAERTLING BITRAN BREER, Galerie Denise René, by Pontus Hulten

New York Herald Tribune, (February)

Profils, n°7, Paris

1953

Accrochages chez Denise René, J.S. Arts, (July)

La flambée d’art abstrait sur quoi se termine la saison ajoute l’imposture à l’inexpérience, Frank Edgar

Denise René, Combat, (August)

Salon des réalités nouvelles

1952

New York Herald Tribune Paris edition, Feb 26