Product Details

• Actors: Amy Adler, Marcia Tucker, Dorothy Vogel, Herb, Christopher Knight
• Directors: Chris Maybach
• Format: Color, Dolby, Special Edition, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: All Regions
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Twelve Films
• DVD Release Date: July 2, 2002
• Run Time: 59 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B0000AYGAZ
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #149,891 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

with: Agnes Martin; Richard Tuttle; John Baldessari; Robert Williams; Joan Snyder; Mike Bidlo; Amy Adler ; Carolyn Martin; Mat Gleason; Marcia Tucker; Dave Hickey.

Travelling around the country, Art City: Simplicity takes viewers on a revealing trip into the studios and lives of a group of singular artists. On a desert mesa outside Santa Fe, Richard Tuttle invents his mysterious and marvellously humble forms, made of wire, cardboard, wood. In Taos, Agnes Martin rhythmically repeats extremely simplified images. Near the Santa Monica surf, John Baldessari, aims for successful juxtapositions of photographs and text. In his North Hollywood living room, Robert Williams revels in surreal cartoon imagery. At a cabin in Woodstock, Joan Snyder refines her sensuous art amid a lush forest. Mike Bidlo salutes Duchamp in a SoHo Gallery, while on Sunset Boulevard, Amy Adler reclaims personal history through self-portraits. Through this group of memorable iconoclasts, the creative "act" is there to see and study. Along with writer Dave Hickey, and others, Simplicity addresses artists’ relations with the press, feelings about showing one’s work, distilling concepts into an essence, and what it means to succeed in the artworld. Music by Beck, Tom Waits, Charles Mingus, Count Basie, Ted Greene, Antonio Carlos Jobim.

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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars just lovely, May 21, 2005

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black snapper "lazy sculptor" (new york) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Art City: Simplicity (DVD)

excellent documentary with relaxed, at home/studio interviews. moving and inspirational. richard tuttle & agnes martin steal the show. also some disparate thoughts on the art establishment from writers and critics. well done.