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Zusatztext It is not well-known today that in the aftermath of World War II, emerging trends in media and international alliances, ideas about mass communication and the democratization of culture, and representation of national identity converged to produce a "golden age" of films about art and artists in Europe and the U.S. Art in Cinema is an invaluable resource on the mid-century heyday of the art documentary. Informationen zum Autor Steven Jacobs is an art historian who specialises in the relationship between film and the visual arts. He is Associate Professor at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is the author of The Dark Galleries: A Museum Guide to Painted Portraits in Film Noir (2013, with Lisa Colpaert), Framing Pictures: Film and the Visual Arts (2011) and The Wrong House: The Architecture of Alfred Hitchcock (2007). Birgit Cleppe is a doctoral researcher at the Department of Art History, University of Ghent, Belgium. Her recent research focuses on museology, the visual arts and architecture. Dimitrios Latsis is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the School of Image Arts of Ryerson University, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of American visual culture, historiography and theory and cinema and archival studies. He is currently writing a monograph the historiography of American cinema during the early and silent years. Klappentext In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais's Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot's Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, Art in the Cinema draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others. Vorwort A comprehensive overview of the art documentary genre, with contributions by some of the top names in the field of film criticism. Zusammenfassung In the 1940s and 1950s, hundreds of art documentaries were produced, many of them being highly personal, poetic, reflexive and experimental films that offer a thrilling cinematic experience. With the exception of Alain Resnais’s Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Le Mystère Picasso (1956) and a few others, most of them have received only scant scholarly attention. This book aims to rectify this situation by discussing the most lyrical, experimental and influential post-war art documentaries, connecting them to contemporaneous museological developments and Euro-American cultural and political relationships. With contributors with expertise across art history and film studies, Art in the Cinema draws attention to film projects by André Bazin, Ilya Bolotowsky, Paul Haesaerts, Carlo Ragghianti, John Read, Dudley Shaw Aston, Henri Storck and Willard Van Dyke among others. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University, Belgium) & Dimitrios Latsis ( Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada) 1. The Institutional Breeding Grounds of the Postwar Film on Art, Birgit Cleppe (Ghent University, Belgium) 2. American Art Comes of Age: Documentaries and the Nation at the Dawn of the Cold War, Dimitrios Latsis ( Toronto Metropolitan University, Canad...
