Eisenstein on paper : graphic works by the master of film / Naum Kleiman ; foreword by Martin Scorsese.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kleĭman, N. I. (Naum I.), author.

Contributor:

Kowell Family Art History Fund.

Scorsese, Martin, writer of foreword.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948.

Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948--Catalogs.

Eisenstein, Sergei.

Drawing, Russian.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Genre:

Catalogs.

Physical Description:

319 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

London : Thames & Hudson, 2017.

Summary:

This publication presents 500 of the very best and previously unpublished graphic works by cinema's master of film. Created in collaboration with RGALI - the Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts - this book traces Eisenstein's extraordinary life and career through the distinctive yet evolving styles of his drawings, from early childhood sketches to set and costume designs, and from surreal psychoanalytic drawings to late abstract works. Foremost Eisenstein scholar Naum Kleiman brings fresh and incredible insights into the motivation and purpose of the drawings, and reflects upon excerpts from Eisenstein's own discursive texts, some published here for the first time. Comparative frames from Eisenstein's movies - scanned from the original film - together with a biographical introduction and a foreword by Martin Scorsese completes the revelatory and arresting picture.

Contents:

Foreword / Martin Scorsese

Preface: Sergei Eisenstein's storehouse / Tatiana Goryaeva, Russian State Archive of Literature and Art (RGALI)

Introduction: Reconstructing cinema's renaissance man / Ian Christie

Preface to the drawings: Rules of the game

The king of the universe?: 1912-1917

Heartbreak House: 1917-1923

Yo autoritratto Nuevo Laredo (Me - self-portrait - Nuevo Laredo): 1930-1932

Gedanken zur Musik (Thoughts on music): 1932-1941

Garden of Gethsemane: 1941-1944

Les Dons (Gifts): 1944-1947

Afterword: "Le point du jour d'un faune" (Faun before sunrise)

Notes

Index to the illustrations.

Notes:

"547 illustrations."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 316-317) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Kowell Family Art History Fund.

Contains:

Container of: Eisenstein, Sergei, 1898-1948. Drawings. Selections

ISBN:

9780500093931

0500093938

OCLC:

951949753