Film, art, new media : museum without walls? / edited by Angela Dalle Vacche.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dalle Vacche, Angela, 1954-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Motion pictures and history.

Museums--Forecasting.

Museums.

Arts, Modern--20th century.

Arts, Modern.

Arts and society--History--20th century.

Arts and society.

History.

Forecasting.

Physical Description:

xxii, 336 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Summary:

In the footsteps of André Bazin, this anthology of 15 original chapters argues that the photographic origin of twentieth-century cinema is anti-anthropocentric. Well aware that the twentieth century stands out as the only period in history with its own photographic film record for posterity, Angela Dalle Vacche has convened international scholars at The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, and asked them to rethink the history and theory of the cinema as a new model for the museum of the future.

By exploring the art historical tropes of face and landscape, and key areas of film studies such as early cinema, Soviet film theory documentary, the avant-garde and the newly born genre of the museum film, this collection includes detailed discussions of installation art and close analyses of media relations, which range from dance to painting to performance art.

With thanks to the title of André Malraux's famous project, Film, Art. New; Media: Museum Without Walls? invites readers to reflect on the museum of the future, where twentieth-century cinema will play a pivotal role by, interrogating the relation between art and science, technology and nature, from the side of photography in dialogue with digitalization. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 Introduction: A Cosmology of Contingency / Angela Dalle Vacche Vacche, Angela Dalle 1

Part I Early Cinema

2 The Artist's Studio: The Affair of Art and Film / Lynda Nead Nead, Lynda 23

3 Cézanne and the Lumière Brothers / Angela Dalle Vacche Vacche, Angela Dalle 39

4 The Medium is a Muscle: Abstraction in Early Film, Dance, Painting / Nell Andrew Andrew, Nell 57

Part II Film Theory

5 Vertov and the Line: Art, Socialization, Collaboration / John MacKay MacKay, John 81

6 Quoting Motion: The Frame, the Shot, and Digital Video / Trond Lundemo Lundemo, Trond 97

7 Malraux, Benjamin, Bazin: A Triangle of Hope for Cinema / Dudley Andrew Andrew, Dudley 115

8 Poetic Density, Ontic Weight: Post-Photographic Depiction in Victor Erice's Dream of Light / Simon Dixon Dixon, Simon 141

Part III Visual Studies, Art History, Film

9 Of the Face, In Reticence / Noa Steimatsky Steimatsky, Noa 159

10 Remapping the Rural: The Ideological Geographies of Strapaese / Lara Pucci Pucci, Lara 178

Part IV Painters and Filmmakers

11 Artistic Encounters: Jean-Marie Straub, Danièle Huillet, and Cezanne / Sally Shafto Shafto, Sally 199

12 Two-Way Mirror: Francis Bacon and the Deformation of Film / Susan Felleman Felleman, Susan 221

Part V Film, Museum, New Media

13 A Disturbing Presence? Scenes from the History of Film in the Museum / Ian Christie Christie, Ian 241

14 Elegy, Eulogy, and the Utopia of Restoration-Alexander Sokurov's Russian Ark / Jeremi Szaniawski Szaniawski, Jeremi 256

15 Museums as Laboratories of Change: The Case for the Moving Image / François Penz Penz, François 278

16 Right Here ... Right Now ... Art Gone Live! / Gavin Hogben Hogben, Gavin 301.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780230272927

0230272924

OCLC:

776773164

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