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Author: Rudolf E. Kuenzli
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 1996-07-29
Total Pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780262611213
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis groundbreaking collection of thirteen original essays analyzes connections between film and two highly influential twentieth-century movements.
Author: R. Bruce Elder
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2015-10-15
Total Pages: 777
ISBN-13: 1554586410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
Author: David Hopkins
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2004-04-08
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0192802542
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
Author: Judi Freeman
Publisher: Mit Press
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780262061230
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Dada & Surrealist Word-Image examines the fusing of words and images, its impact on traditional forms of art, and the issues it raises for today's modernist agenda.
Author: Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Published: 1936
Total Pages: 306
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Bruce Elder
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2008-10-02
Total Pages: 518
ISBN-13: 1554580285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKR. Bruce Elder argues that the authors of many of the manifestoes that announced in such lively ways the appearance of yet another artistic movement shared a common aspiration: they proposed to reformulate the visual, literary, and performing arts so that they might take on attributes of the cinema. The cinema, Elder argues, became, in the early decades of the twentieth century, a pivotal artistic force around which a remarkable variety and number of aesthetic forms took shape. To demonstrate this, Elder begins with a wide-ranging discussion that opens up some broad topics concerning modernity’s cognitive (and perceptual) regime, with a view to establishing that a crisis within that regime engendered some peculiar, and highly questionable, epistemological beliefs and enthusiasms. Through this discussion, Elder advances the startling claim that a crisis of cognition precipitated by modernity engendered, by way of response, a peculiar sort of “pneumatic (spiritual) epistemology.” Elder then shows that early ideas of the cinema were strongly influenced by this pneumatic epistemology and uses this conception of the cinema to explain its pivotal role in shaping two key moments in early-twentieth-century art: the quest to bring forth a pure, “objectless” (non-representational) art and Russian Suprematism, Constructivism, and Productivism.
Author: Dawn Ades
Publisher: Conran Octopus
Published: 1978
Total Pages: 538
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: R. Bruce Elder
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
Published: 2018-06-30
Total Pages: 1075
ISBN-13: 1771122722
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCubism 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.
Author: William S. Rubin
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Published: 1930
Total Pages: 525
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Dawn Ades
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780500237113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOne of the finest and most famous collections of Surrealist art ever assembled now housed at the Art Institute of Chicago is that of Chicago philanthropists Lindy and Edwin A. Bergman. Artists represented include Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso, among many others. Noted critic and art historian Dawn Ades has written an absorbing account of the Bergman collection. All the 118 works are reproduced in full color. 180 illus. 120 in color.
