1st Edition

Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History

By Patricia Emison Copyright 2021
582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

582 Pages
by Routledge

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas – not least the idea of the power of visual art – across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the... Read more
Foreword, Prologue, 1. The New and the Old in the Art of Cinema, 2. The Machine Aesthetic, 3. Competing with Text, 4. After Eve, Epilogue, Bibliography, List of Films, Index

Biography

Patricia Emison is Professor at the University of New Hampshire. A contributor to various exhibitions of early modern engravings, etchings, and woodcuts, she is also the author of The Italian Renaissance and Cultural Memory (2012), The Shaping of Art History: Meditations on a Discipline (2008), and Creating the 'Divine' Artist from Dante to Michelangelo (2004), as well as a chapter on 'Ideas: Philosophy, Religion, History', in A Cultural History of Memory, vol. 3, M. Tamm and A. Arcangeli, eds. (2020).