Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting

ISBN-13: 9780367661700 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 154 str.

Katherine Manthorne

Opis

This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of, the aesthetic possibilities pried open by cinema from its invention until the outbreak of World War II, when both the art world and the film industry changed substantially.

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. TWO AMERICAN ARTISTS AND SILENT CINEMA; Chapter 1. Lust for Looking: John Sloan’s Moving Picture Eye; Chapter 2. Transforming Moving Pictures into Art: Everett Shinn, Artist on the Set; PART II. NEW WOMAN, NEW NEGRO; Chapter 3. Leading Ladies: Dance, Reform, Liberation; Chapter 4. Seeing in Black and White: Resistance, Rhythm, Renaissance; Timeline; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

O autorze

Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, USA.