Sculpture and Film

This collection thus comprises the first rigorous exploration of the relationship between sculpture and film, charted over fourteen essays. The contributors explore some of the ways in which cinema reshaped the landscape of art and specifically sculpture and sculptural practice during the twentieth century. They also examine how film has functioned

List of contents

List of illustrations Notes on contributors Foreword 1 Filling the frame: Brancusi’s film stills of Leda and the manifestation of attention (Alexandra Parigoris) 2 ‘Deaf, dumb and blind cinema’: re-evaluating the surrealist object through film (Samantha Lackey) 3 Stop and go: sculpture in experimental film (Cornelia Lund) 4 Acoustic shaping: sound, film and sculpture (Nora M. Alter) 5 ‘The art that moves’: Len Lye, film and sculpture (David Curtis) 6 Moving in the image: Judd’s crystals (Kirstie Skinner) 7 The cut: Hollis Frampton and Carl Andre in dialogue (Melissa Ragona) 8 ‘The very statues breathe’: Greenaway, Shakespeare and the performance of sculpture (David Pascoe) 9 Prop, studio, action: Paul McCarthy’s cuts (John C. Welchman) 10 Staging/object/film: considering Robert Morris at Tate Gallery in 1971 (Lisa Le Feuvre) Index

About the author

Jon Wood is Head of Research at the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.

Ian Christie is Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London.

Summary

This collection thus comprises the first rigorous exploration of the relationship between sculpture and film, charted over fourteen essays. The contributors explore some of the ways in which cinema reshaped the landscape of art and specifically sculpture and sculptural practice during the twentieth century. They also examine how film has functioned

Product details

• Authors: Jon Christie Wood
• Assisted by: Ian Christie (Editor), Christie Ian (Editor), Jon Wood (Editor), Wood Jon (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.01.2023
• EAN: 9781032476087
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3247608-7
• No. of pages: 176
• Series: Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture
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