{"product_id":"art-in-the-cinema-9781350357518","title":"Art in the Cinema","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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 \u003ci\u003eVan Gogh\u003c\/i\u003e (1948), Henri-Georges Clouzot's \u003ci\u003eLe Mystère Picasso\u003c\/i\u003e (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, \u003ci\u003eArt in the Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Mystery of Picasso\u003c\/i\u003e (1956), \u003ci\u003eHenry Moore\u003c\/i\u003e (1951), and the experimental feature film \u003ci\u003ePictura\u003c\/i\u003e (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\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003ci\u003eArt in Cinema\u003c\/i\u003e is an invaluable resource on the mid-century heyday of the art documentary. -- Susan Felleman, Professor, Art History \u0026amp; Film and Media Studies, University of South Carolina, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Mid-Century Celluloid Museum, \u003ci\u003eSteven Jacobs (Ghent University \u0026amp; Antwerp University, Belgium) \u0026amp; Dimitrios Latsis (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Metropolitan University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 1. The Institutional Breeding Grounds of the Postwar Film on Art, \u003ci\u003eBirgit Cleppe (Ghent University, Belgium)\u003c\/i\u003e 2. American Art Comes of Age: Documentaries and the Nation at the Dawn of the Cold War, \u003ci\u003eDimitrios Latsis (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eToronto Metropolitan University, Canada)\u003c\/i\u003e 3. Art History with a Camera: \u003ci\u003eRubens\u003c\/i\u003e (1948) and Paul Haesaerts’s Concept of \u003ci\u003eCinéma Critique\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSteven Jacobs (Ghent University \u0026amp; Antwerp University, Belgium) \u0026amp; Joséphine-Charlotte Vandekerckhove\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(Ghent University, Belgium \u0026amp; Verona University, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 4. Carlo Ludovico Ragghianti’s \u003ci\u003eCritolfims\u003c\/i\u003e and Beyond: From Cinema to Information Technology, \u003ci\u003eEmanuele Pellegrini (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eIMT School for Advanced Studies, Italy)\u003c\/i\u003e 5. André Bazin’s Art Documentary in Saintonge, \u003ci\u003eAngela Dalle Vacche (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorgia Institute of Technology, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 6. Projecting Cultural Diplomacy: Cold War Politics, Films on Art, and Willard Van Dyke’s \u003ci\u003eThe Photographer\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eNatasha Ritsma (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eLoyola University Museum of Art, USA)\u003c\/i\u003e 7. Henry Moore and \u003ci\u003eA Sculptor’s Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e: Modernity, the Land and the Bomb in Two Television Films by John Read, \u003ci\u003eJohn Wyver (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Westminster, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 8. Creative Process, Material Inscription and Dudley Shaw Ashton’s \u003ci\u003eFigures in a Landscape\u003c\/i\u003e (1953), \u003ci\u003eLucy Reynolds\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003e(\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eUniversity of Westminster, UK)\u003c\/i\u003e 9. Neoplasticism and Cinema: Ilya Bolotowsky’s Experimental Films on Art, \u003ci\u003eHenning Engelke (\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eGoethe University Frankfurt, Germany)\u003c\/i\u003e Mid-Twentieth-Century Art Documentaries: A Selected Bibliography About the Authors Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48738623816023,"sku":"9781350357518","price":23.74,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350357518.jpg?v=1720049689","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/art-in-the-cinema-9781350357518","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}