Film and Modern American Art - The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting

List of contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I. TWO AMERICAN ARTISTS AND SILENT CINEMA; Chapter 1. Lust for Looking: John Sloan’s Moving Picture Eye; Chapter 2. Transforming Moving Pictures into Art: Everett Shinn, Artist on the Set; PART II. NEW WOMAN, NEW NEGRO; Chapter 3. Leading Ladies: Dance, Reform, Liberation; Chapter 4. Seeing in Black and White: Resistance, Rhythm, Renaissance; Timeline; Select Bibliography; List of Illustrations; Index

About the author

Katherine Manthorne is Professor of Art History at the City University of New York’s Graduate Center, USA.

Summary

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.

Product details

• Authors: Katherine Manthorne
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367661700
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66170-0
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Routledge Advances in Art and Visual Studies
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; USA, Media Studies, Theory of art, ART / History / General, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, ART / Film & Video, ART / American / General, History of art & design styles: c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, History of Art, United States of America, USA, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Film: styles & genres, Film: styles and genres, ART / American / African American & Black, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, ART / Movements / Modernism