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 Resnaiss Van Gogh (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzots Le Mystčre 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.
Recenzijos
This remarkable book charts the development, as well as the public and critical acceptance, of the art film documentary at the mid-point of the 20th century. In a series of elegantly written and deeply perceptive essays by some of the most respected authorities in the field, such classic films as The Mystery of Picasso (1956), Henry Moore (1951), and the experimental feature film Pictura (1951) are brought back to public attention in a volume that is an essential text for both cinema historians and art lovers as well. A dazzling volume in every respect bravo! -- Wheeler Winston Dixon, James Ryan Professor of Film Studies, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA 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. -- Susan Felleman, Professor, Art History & Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina, USA
Daugiau informacijos
A comprehensive overview of the art documentary genre, with contributions by some of the top names in the field of film criticism.
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, Canada)
3. Art History with a Camera: Rubens (1948) and Paul Haesaertss Concept of
Cinéma Critique, Steven Jacobs (Ghent University & Antwerp University,
Belgium) & Joséphine-Charlotte Vandekerckhove (Ghent University, Belgium &
Verona University, Italy)
4. Carlo Ludovico Ragghiantis Critolfims and Beyond: From Cinema to
Information Technology, Emanuele Pellegrini (IMT School for Advanced Studies,
Italy)
5. André Bazins Art Documentary in Saintonge, Angela Dalle Vacche (Georgia
Institute of Technology, USA)
6. Projecting Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Politics, Films on Art, and
Willard Van Dykes The Photographer, Natasha Ritsma (Loyola University Museum
of Art, USA)
7. Henry Moore and A Sculptors Landscape: Modernity, the Land and the Bomb
in Two Television Films by John Read, John Wyver (University of Westminster,
UK)
8. Creative Process, Material Inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashtons Figures in
a Landscape (1953), Lucy Reynolds (University of Westminster, UK)
9. Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowskys Experimental Films on Art,
Henning Engelke (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany)
Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography
About the Authors
Index
Steven Jacobs is Associate Professor at Ghent University and the University of Antwerp, Belgium. He is an art historian specializing in the relations between film and the visual arts a topic on which he published widely.
Dimitrios Latsis is Assistant Professor of Film Studies at the School of Image Arts of Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada. He has published widely in the fields of American visual culture, historiography and theory and cinema and archival studies.
Birgit Cleppe is a doctoral researcher in the Department of Art History, Ghent University, Belgium. She also teaches history of architecture at KASK & Conservatorium in Ghent, Belgium.
