The Impulse To Preserve
''The Impulse to Preserve'' is Robert Gardner (anthropologist), Robert Gardner's 2006 memoir about his career creating actuality films. The book's title comes from the Philip Larkin quotation: "The impulse to preserve lies at the bottom of all art." References The Impulse to Preserve: Reflections of a Filmmaker External links Robert Gardner website
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Robert Gardner (anthropologist)
Robert Grosvenor Gardner (November 5, 1925 – June 21, 2014) was an American academic, anthropologist, and documentary filmmaker who was the Director of the Film Study Center at Harvard University from 1956 to 1997. He is known for his work in the field of visual anthropology and films like the National Film Registry inductee '' Dead Birds'' and ''Forest of Bliss''. In 2011, a retrospective of his work was held at Film Forum, New York. Biography He was the sixth child and third son, born in the home of his grandmother Isabella Stewart Gardner. He was a cousin of poet Robert Lowell. After graduating with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University in 1947, he became an assistant to the founder of the Byzantine Institute of America, Thomas Whittemore at Harvard's Fogg Museum. This led to travels to Anatolia, Fayum and London working with Coptic textiles and restoring Byzantine art Next, he started teaching medieval art and history at the College of Puget Sound in Washingt ...
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