Farber, Manny

LC control no.	n 50009181
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Farber, Manny *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Farber, Emanuel Farber, Emmanuel
Other standard no.	0000000119526457 91420821 Q373481
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1917-02-20
Death date	2008-08-18
Place of birth	Douglas (Ariz.)
Place of death	Leucadia (Encinitas, Calif.)
Affiliation	University of California, San Diego
Profession or occupation	Painters Film critics College teachers
Found in	Author's Negative space, 1971. New York times WWW site, Aug. 21, 2008 (in obituary published Aug. 19: Manny Farber; b. Emanuel Farber, 1917, Douglas, Ariz.; d. Monday [Aug. 18, 2008], Leucadia, Calif., aged 91; painter whose spiky, impassioned film criticism waged war against sacred cows like Orson Welles and elevated American genre-movie directors like Howard Hawks and Sam Fuller to the Hollywood pantheon) Independent online ed., Sept. 25, 2008 (Manny Farber; b. Emmanuel Farber, Feb. 20, 1917, Douglas, Ariz.; d. Aug. 18, 2008, Leucadia, Calif.) Information from 678 converted Dec. 17, 2014 (painter, film critic; b. 2/20/17) UC San Diego Visual Arts Department website, Jan. 16, 2024 (Professor Emeritus Manny Faber who served on the full-time faculty from 1970 to 1987, died August 18, 2008, at his home in Leucadia, California. He was 91. Artist Manny Farber pursued dual careers as a film critic and painter since 1941. Farber served as the film critic for The New Republic, The Nation, Time Magazine, The New Leader, Cavalier, and Artforum before joining the Visual Arts Department in 1970. A collection of Farber's early criticism was published under the title of Negative Space and later reprinted as Movies. Since 1975, he wrote in collaboration with his wife, Patricia Patterson, and their work has been published primarily in City Magazine and Film Comment)
Associated language	eng