A FORMIDABLE CRITIC and an expansive personality, P. Adams Sitney was at once affable and irascible, generous and opinionated. He loved to play the Great Man, and as the author of an unquestionably great book illuminating an ostensibly abstruse subject—published before he turned thirty—why not? Appearing in 1974, Visionary Film: The American Avant-Garde invented a […]
