Late Bresson and the visual arts : cinema, painting and Avant-Garde experiment / Raymond Watkins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Watkins, Raymond, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Bresson, Robert--Criticism and interpretation.

Bresson, Robert.

Art and motion pictures.

Avant-garde (Aesthetics).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2018.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

The color films of French film director Robert Bresson (1901-99) have largely been neglected, despite the fact that Bresson himself considered them to be more fully realized reflections of his aspirations for the cinema. This study presents a revised and revitalized Bresson, comparing his late style to painterly innovations in color, light, and iconography from the Middle Ages to the present, to abstract painting in France after World War II, and to affinities with the avant-garde movements of Surrealism, Constructivism, and Minimalism. Drawing on media archeology, this study views Bresson's work through such allied visual arts practices as painting, photography, sculpture, theater, and dance.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1 Classical and Postwar Painting

1. Bresson's Debt to Painting

2. The Turn to Postwar Abstraction

Part 2 Avant-Garde Experiment

3. Bresson's Flirtation with Surrealism

4. The Design and Pattern of the Whole

5. Between Constructivism and Minimalism

Illustration Credits

Bibliography

About the author

Index

Film Culture in Transition

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 22 Feb 2021).

ISBN:

1-003-69877-8

1-04-079253-7

90-485-6144-2

90-485-3399-6

9781003698777

OCLC:

1062360868