DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect

Author: R. Bruce Elder

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2015-10-15

Total Pages: 777

ISBN-13: 1554586410

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This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema’s lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film’s provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it exemplified the vibrancy of contemporary life. This view of the cinema was especially common among those whose commitments were to advanced artistic practices. Their notions about how to recast the art media (or the forms forged from those media’s materials) and the urgency of doing so formed the principal part of the conceptual core of the artistic programs advanced by the vanguard art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book, a companion to the author’s previous, Harmony & Dissent, examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema.


Cubism and Futurism

Cubism and Futurism

Author: R. Bruce Elder

Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press

Published: 2018-06-30

Total Pages: 1075

ISBN-13: 1771122722

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Cubism and futurism were closely related movements that vied with each other in the economy of renown. Perception, dynamism, and the dynamism of perception—these were the issues that passed back and forth between the two. Cubism and Futurism: Spiritual Machines and the Cinematic Effect shows how movement became, in the traditional visual arts, a central factor with the advent of the cinema: gone were the days when an artwork strived merely to lift experience out the realm of change and flow. The cinema at this time was understood as an electric art, akin to X-rays, coloured light, and sonic energy. In this book, celebrated filmmaker and author Bruce Elder connects the dynamism that the cinema made an essential feature of the new artwork to the new science of electromagnetism. Cubism is a movement on the cusp of the transition from the Cartesian world of standardized Cartesian coordinates and interchangeable machine parts to a Galvanic world of continuities and flows. In contrast, futurism embraced completely the emerging electromagnetic view of reality. Cubism and Futurism examines the similarity and differences between the two movements’ engagement with the new science of energy and shows that the notion of energy made central to the new artwork by the cinema assumed a spiritual dimension, as the cinema itself came to be seen as a pneumatic machine.


Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Dada and Surrealism: A Very Short Introduction

Author: David Hopkins

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2004-04-08

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 0192802542

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A stimulating introduction to the many debates surrounding the Dadaist and Surrealist movements, such as the Marquis de Sade's position as a Surrealist deity, attitudes towards the city, the impact of Freud, and attitudes towards women.


Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

Fantastic Art, Dada, Surrealism

Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13:

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"Includes essays by Alfred H. Barr, Georges Hugnet, a brief chronology of the Dada and Surrealist movements, bibliography relevant to the exhibition held at the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1936-37"--AbeBooks.


Dada & Surrealism

Dada & Surrealism

Author: C. W. E. Bigsby

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-07-06

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 1315279843

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Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- General Editor's Preface -- Prefatory Note -- Part One Data -- 1 Definitions, Statements and Manifestoes -- 2 The Spread of the Dada Virus -- 3 The Dada Essence -- Part Two Surrealism -- 4 Definitions, Statements and Manifestoes -- 5 Birth, Progress and Politics -- 6 Origins, Aesthetics and Ethics -- Select Bibliography -- Index