The Cubist Cinema

Author : Standish Lawder
Publisher : Eyewash Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Standish Lawder and the Cubist Cinema written by Standish Lawder and published by Eyewash Books. This book was released on 2020-05-07 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standish Lawder was a film artist. In November 1965 at the Film-Makers' Cinematheque, he participated in an early “expanded cinema” event organized by Jonas Mekas and the "New American Cinema Group.” Over the following decade, Lawder made a series of provocative, visually ingenious films which are as compelling now as they were a half century ago. Standish Lawder was an art historian. If the activity of Mekas and the New York “underground” have now come to be seen as the beginning of the second major chapter in the history of experimental film, unquestionably the first chapter was the European avant-garde of the 1920s. Lawder was a pioneer in serious art historical research on the subject. This book is an attempt to appreciate Lawder as an artist and make his singular achievement as an art historian more available.

Author : Standish D. Lawder
Publisher : New York : New York University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cubist Cinema written by Standish D. Lawder and published by New York : New York University Press. This book was released on 1975 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standish D. Lawder, in The Cubist Cinema, correlates the history of film with its impact on modern art. Here is a definitive examination of the interrelationships between the Cubist movement in painting and its manifestations in film. The Cubist Cinema explores such questions as: What is the nature of early filmic expression and its significance to early twentieth-century art? How might the earliest films have been perceived by modern artists? How has film influenced modern art? Which films in themselves have made notable contributions to early twentieth-century art, particularly Cubism? The scope of the book covers such giants as Picasso, Survage, Kandinsky and Schonberg and their fascination with film, and then moves into the surrealist Bauhaus aesthetic and the hallucinatory content of Surrealistic painting of the late 1920s as a background for the abstract movement in film, beginning with Hans Richter, Viking Eggeling, and Walter Ruttman. Standish Lawder offers much original research as a basis for analysis of Richter, Eggeling and Leger, as well as other seminal figures of the avant-garde film movement of the 20s. Leger's famous Ballet Mecanique (1924) is studied in comprehensive detail - its sources, its position with Leger's painted oeuvre, and its nature as a work of art are analysed and documented. As film has come to be regarded as the art of our time, The Cubist Cinema is exclusively relevant as a source of the earliest alliance between film and modern art.

Author : R. Bruce Elder
Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
ISBN 13 : 1771122722
Total Pages : 591 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cubism and Futurism written by R. Bruce Elder and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2018-06-30 with total page 591 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Joseph Garrett Glover
Publisher : Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cubist Theatre written by Joseph Garrett Glover and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Research Press. This book was released on 1983 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Gene Youngblood
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823287432
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Expanded Cinema written by Gene Youngblood and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiftieth anniversary reissue of the founding media studies book that helped establish media art as a cultural category. First published in 1970, Gene Youngblood’s influential Expanded Cinema was the first serious treatment of video, computers, and holography as cinematic technologies. Long considered the bible for media artists, Youngblood’s insider account of 1960s counterculture and the birth of cybernetics remains a mainstay reference in today’s hypermediated digital world. This fiftieth anniversary edition includes a new Introduction by the author that offers conceptual tools for understanding the sociocultural and sociopolitical realities of our present world. A unique eyewitness account of burgeoning experimental film and the birth of video art in the late 1960s, this far- ranging study traces the evolution of cinematic language to the end of fiction, drama, and realism. Vast in scope, its prescient formulations include “the paleocybernetic age,” “intermedia,” the “artist as design scientist,” the “artist as ecologist,” “synaesthetics and kinesthetics,” and “the technosphere: man/machine symbiosis.” Outstanding works are analyzed in detail. Methods of production are meticulously described, including interviews with artists and technologists of the period, such as Nam June Paik, Jordan Belson, Andy Warhol, Stan Brakhage, Carolee Schneemann, Stan VanDerBeek, Les Levine, and Frank Gillette. An inspiring Introduction by the celebrated polymath and designer R. Buckminster Fuller—a perfectly cut gem of countercultural thinking in itself—places Youngblood’s radical observations in comprehensive perspective. Providing an unparalleled historical documentation, Expanded Cinema clarifies a chapter of countercultural history that is still not fully represented in the arthistorical record half a century later. The book will also inspire the current generation of artists working in ever-newer expansions of the cinematic environment and will prove invaluable to all who are concerned with the technologies that are reshaping the nature of human communication.

Author : Kenneth Wayne
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Picasso, Braque, Léger, and the Cubist Spirit, 1919-1939 written by Kenneth Wayne and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents art and design in France during the years between the two World Wars, in an effort to dispel the perception that Cubism was only a pre-World War I phenomenon. After the war, Cubist painting became more varied, colorful, and accessible, and began to affect other media such as furniture, fashion, cinema and architecture. What had begun as a rarefied pictorial style became a popular language. The first essay addresses Picasso's abundant and varied cubist painting. The second essay treats the art of three major Cubists -- Picasso, Braque, and Leger -- in the context of the various cubist idioms that developed. The third essay, also broad in scope, examines the significant relationship between Cubism and the decorative arts in France.

Author : David DeSmit
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cubism and the Cinema written by David DeSmit and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Bordwell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674002135
Total Pages : 4 pages
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Download or read book Planet Hong Kong written by David Bordwell and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This definitive study of Hong Kong cinema examines the work of directors such as Tsui Hark, John Woo, Ringo Lam, Johnnie To, King Hu, and Wong Kar Wai.

Author : Malcolm Turvey
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262525119
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Filming of Modern Life written by Malcolm Turvey and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the 1920s, the European avant-garde embraced the cinema, experimenting with the medium in radical ways. Painters including Hans Richter and Fernand Leger as well as filmmakers belonging to such avant-garde movements as Dada and surrealism made some of the most enduring and fascinating films in the history of cinema. In The Filming of Modern Life, Malcolm Turvey examines five films from the avant-garde canon and the complex, sometimes contradictory, attitudes toward modernity they express: Rhythm 21 (Hans Richter, 1921), Ballet mecanique (Dudley Murphy and Fernand Léger, 1924), Entr'acte (Francis Picabia and René Clair, 1924), Un chien Andalou (Salvador Dali and Luis Buñuel, 1929), and Man with a Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929). All exemplify major trends within European avant-garde cinema of the time, from abstract animation to "cinema pur."

Author : Bill Nichols
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520054097
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Movies and Methods written by Bill Nichols and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1976 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: VOLUME 2: "Movies and Methods," Volume II, captures the developments that have given history and genre studies imaginative new models and indicates how feminist, structuralist, and psychoanalytic approaches to film have achieved fresh, valuable insights. In his thoughtful introduction, Nichols provides a context for the paradoxes that confront film studies today. He shows how shared methods and approaches continue to stimulate much of the best writing about film, points to common problems most critics and theorists have tried to resolve, and describes the internal contraditions that have restricted the usefulness of post-structuralism. Mini-introductions place each essay in a larger context and suggest its linkages with other essays in the volume. A great variety of approaches and methods characterize film writing today, and the final part conveys their diversity--from statistical style analysis to phenomenology and from gay criticisms to neoformalism. This concluding part also shows how the rigorous use of a broad range of approaches has helped remove post-structuralist criticism from its position of dominance through most of the seventies and early eighties. -- Publisher description.