Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923

"Scholars have long been fascinated with the affinities between early cinema, Cubism, and the avant-garde. Jennifer Wild argues that these affinities are more complex than previously imagined and can be derived from historical research. Drawing from a vast popular cultural, cinematic, and art historical archive, Wild challenges how we have told the story of modern artists' earliest encounter with cinema and urges us to reconsider how early projection, film stardom, and film distribution shaped their understanding of modern life, representation, and the act of beholding. This book provides a new history and historiography that reshape how we understand French art and cinema in the first decades of the twentieth century"--Provided by publisher.

Summary

Drawing from a vast popular cultural, cinematic, and art-historical archive, this book historiography that redefines how we understand early cinema and avant-garde art before artists turned to making films themselves.

Product details

• Authors: Jennifer Wild, Wild Jennifer
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.03.2015
• EAN: 9780520279889
• ISBN: 978-0-520-27988-9
• No. of pages: 360
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; France, ART / European, ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945), History of Art, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960