America: Lost Icon 1973 by Alan Powell

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Alan Powell

America: Lost Icon 1973

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One of Powell's earliest works as a video artist, using color image processing in a painterly and iconographical way to represent who we are as Americans. Depicting a local parade, a device which repeats throughout his body of work, America: Lost Icon uses a collage of American Social realism images from painters like Grant Wood and Thomas Hart Brenton. To Powell, the parade becomes “the moving architecture of America and its communities.” Extreme close-ups of individual faces as well as wide shots of the cavalcade going by are intercut with frames of iconic American art such as Grant Wood's American Gothic (1930). The video was never shown publicly but is a benchmark in Powell’s first use of electronic color.

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Swings 1974

Living Together in Our Apartment (Hlynsky/Powell 1974)

Brice Howard (NCET) with Dennis Hlynsky and Alan Powell 1974

Video Forest 1974 with Alan Powell, Joe Goldman, Barbara Hockfield

Video Maze RISD 1974, stereo piece

Video Maze RISD 1974

Dennis Thesis night RISD 1974

3 Poems