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WALLACE BERMAN AND “ALEPH” WITH TOSH BERMAN IN PERSON

Tosh Berman will narrate a walk-through of his father's surreal collage art film ALEPH created 1958-1976 by the Beat artist Wallace Berman.

Monday, March 8, 2021
7:00pm – 9:45pm
ONLINE HOWE ZOOM
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Exhibitions, Films, Lectures & Seminars

https://www.thehowe.org/eventdetail.php/pid/2/sid/55/tid/141/eid/7378

Son Tosh Berman will approach his father’s art, the "father of assemblage art" Beat Generation icon Wallace Berman, with a deep-dive into the experimental collage film Aleph (1958-1976), a meditation on life, death, mysticism, politics and pop culture.

JOIN ZOOM MEETING  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/89850653060?pwd=eTFFaFBZRkJId2s5SGFwRTlvUnJqQT09

Meeting ID: 898 5065 3060    Passcode: 550878

On TOSH (2018) published by City Lights BooksTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of hippie counterculture.

FILMS:  Selected film and tv clips, and full length screening of Aleph (1958-1976) Wallace Berman 7:43’ and a restored film by one Berman’s art world contemporaries. TRT 120 minutes.

BIO:  TOSH BERMAN, writer, poet and once publisher of TamTam Books, penned the acclaimed memoir Tosh: Growing up in Wallace Berman’s World (2019).

LINKS:  https://hyperallergic.com/495691/tosh-growing-up-in-wallace-bermans-world-city-light-books/

https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/profiles/article/78786-tosh-berman-pens-a-bohemian-rhapsody-of-a-memoir.html

https://www.haaretz.com/jewish/.premium-this-day-a-famed-beat-artist-dies-1.5323187

https://www.monsterchildren.com/wallace-berman-artist/

https://bit.ly/2xadFOX 

http://tamtambooks-tosh.blogspot.com/

CO-SPONSORS:  AVA Gallery and Art Center, CATV, Department of Film and Media Studies Dartmouth College, Filmmakers Showcase, Howe Library, Jones Media Center - Dartmouth Library, VTIFF - Vermont International Film Foundation.

 

For more information, contact:
Bruce Posner / Megan Coleman
603-640-3252

Events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.