Several books give helpful overviews of the history of artists’ film and video, including many of the artists distributed by LUX:
Catherine Elwes, Video Art: A Guided Tour IB Tauris, 2005
Nicky Hamlyn, Film Art Phenomena BFI, 2003
Julia Knight (Editor), Diverse Practices: A Critical Reader on British Video Art University of Luton Press, 1996
Michael O’Pray, The British Avant-Garde Film: 1926-1995, An anthology of writings University of Luton Press, 1995
A.L. Rees, A History of Experimental Film and Video: From Canonical Avant-garde to Contemporary British Practice University of California Press, 1999
P. Adams Sitney: The Avant-Garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism, Visionary Film (3rd Edition) Oxford University Press, 2002
Other useful titles include:
Stan Brakhage, Film at Wit’s End: Eight Avant-Garde Filmmakers McPherson & Co., 1991
Wheeler Winston Dixon, The Exploding Eye : A Re-Visionary History of 1960s American Experimental Cinema State University of New York Press, 1997
Peter Gidal (Editor), Structural film anthology British Film Institute, 1976 John Hanhardt (ed), Video Culture: A Critical Investigation Gibbs Smith Publisher, 1987 (OP)
Jan-Christopher Horak (Editor), Lovers of Cinema : The First American Film Avant-Garde 1919-1945 University of Wisconsin Press, 1996
David E James (ed), To Free The Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground Princeton University Press, 1992
Malcolm Le Grice, Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age British Film Institute, 2001
A Critical Cinema 2: Interviews With Independent Filmmakers University of California Press, 1992
A Critical Cinema 3: Interviews With Independent Filmmakers University of California Press, 1998
Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies Cambridge University Press, 1993
Avant-garde Film: Motion Studies Cambridge University Press, 1993
The Garden in the Machine: A Field Guide to Independent Films about Place University of California Press, 2001
Michael Mazi“re & Nina Danino (editors): The UNDERCUT READER Critical Writings on Artists’ Film and Video. Wallflower Press, 2002
James Peterson, Dreams of Chaos, Visions of Order : Understanding the American Avante-Garde Cinema Wayne State University Press, 1994
Edward S. Small, Direct Theory : Experimental Film/Video As a Major Genre Southern Illinois University Press, 1995
Parker Tyler, Underground Film Da Capo Press, 1995
Amos Vogel, Film As A Subversive Art Random House, 1974
William C. Wees, Light Moving in Time : Studies in the Visual Aesthetics of Avant-Garde Film University of California Press, 1992
Gene Youngblood, Expanded Cinema EP Dutton, 1970 (OP) [available as a .pdf file at www.artscilab.org]
