1st Edition
Dutch Neorealism, Cinema, and the Politics of Painting, 1927–1945
By Stephanie Lebas Huber
Copyright 2025
234 Pages
20 Color & 44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
234 Pages
20 Color & 44 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
This study offers a radically new perspective on Dutch Neorealism, one that emphasizes the role of film as an apparatus, the effects of which, when emulated in painting, can reproduce the affective experience of film-watching.
More of a tendency than a tightly defined style or "ism," Neorealism is the Dutch variant of Magic Realism, an uncanny mode of figurative painting identified with Neue... Read more
1. Magic Realism in The Netherlands: Neorealism in Context 2. Open/Closed: Dutchness and Traditional Genres in Crisis 3. A Paragone Between Film and Painting—or—Film as a New Visual Model 4. The Self-Portrait and the Politics of Ambiguity 5. Neorealism under the Occupation 6. Representing “Westland” and the Greater Germanic Imagination
Biography
Stephanie Lebas Huber is an independent scholar based in New York.
