Art in the Cinema (eBook, PDF)

The Mid-Century Art Documentary
Redaktion: Jacobs, Steven; Latsis, Dimitrios; Cleppe, Birgit

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais's Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, Art in the Cinema draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350160309
• Artikelnr.: 60318083

Autorenporträt

Steven Jacobs is Associate Professor at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is an art historian specializing in the relations between film and the visual arts - a topic on which he published widely. Dimitrios Latsis is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the School of Image Arts of Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of American visual culture, historiography and theory and cinema and archival studies. Birgit Cleppe is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Art History, Ghent University, Belgium. She also teaches history of architecture at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, Belgium.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgements
Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, Steven Jacobs (Ghent
University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto
Metropolitan University, Canada)
1. The Institutional Breeding Grounds of the Postwar Film on Art, Birgit
Cleppe (Ghent University, Belgium)
2. American Art Comes of Age: Documentaries and the Nation at the Dawn of
the Cold War, Dimitrios Latsis (Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada)
3. Art History with a Camera: Rubens (1948) and Paul Haesaerts's Concept of
Cinéma Critique, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University,
Belgium) & Joséphine-Charlotte Vandekerckhove (Ghent University, Belgium &
Verona University, Italy)
4. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti's Critolfims and Beyond: From Cinema to
Information Technology, Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School for Advanced
Studies, Italy)
5. André Bazin's Art Documentary in Saintonge, Angela Dalle Vacche (
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA)
6. Projecting Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Politics, Films on Art, and
Willard Van Dyke's The Photographer, Natasha Ritsma (Loyola University
Museum of Art, USA)
7. Henry Moore and A Sculptor's Landscape: Modernity, the Land and the Bomb
in Two Television Films by John Read, John Wyver (University of
Westminster, UK)
8. Creative Process, Material Inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashton's Figures
in a Landscape (1953), Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK)
9. Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky's Experimental Films on Art,
Henning Engelke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography
About the Authors
Index