1st Edition
Film and Modern American Art The Dialogue between Cinema and Painting
By Katherine Manthorne
Copyright 2019
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
164 Pages
by
Routledge
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Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. 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... Read more
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
Biography
Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, USA.
