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 II, when both the art world and the film industry changed substantially. Artists were watching movies, filmmakers studied fine arts; the membrane between media was porous, allowing for fluid exchange. Each chapter focuses on a suite of films and paintings, broken down into facets and then reassembled to elucidate the distinctive art-film nexus at successive historic moments.
| ISBN: | 9780367661700 |
| Publication date: | 30th September 2020 |
| Author: | Katherine Manthorne |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 154 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies |
| Genres: |
Theory of art Media studies History of the Americas History of art Regional / International studies |
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 II, when both the art world and the film industry changed substantially. Artists were watching movies, filmmakers studied fine arts; the membrane between media was porous, allowing for fluid exchange. Each chapter focuses on a suite of films and paintings, broken down into facets and then reassembled to elucidate the distinctive art-film nexus at successive historic moments.
Film and Modern American Art features in the following genres: Theory of art, Media studies, History of the Americas, History of art, Regional / International studies
Film and Modern American Art is available in Paperback, Hardback, Ebook
Film and Modern American Art was written by Katherine Manthorne and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Film and Modern American Art has 154 pages
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