Moving pictures and Renaissance art history / Patricia Emison.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Emison, Patricia, author.

Series:

Film culture in transition.

Film culture in transition

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and motion pictures.

Motion pictures--History.

Motion pictures.

Art, Renaissance.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (581 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

PDF

Summary:

Film, like the printed imagery inaugurated during the Renaissance, spread ideas -- not least the idea of the power of visual art -- across not only geographical and political divides but also strata of class and gender. Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History examines the early flourishing of film, from the 1920s to the mid-1960s, as partly reprising the introduction of mass media in the Renaissance, allowing for innovation that reflected an art free of the control of a patron though required to attract a broad public. Rivalry between word and image, between the demands of narrative and those of visual composition, spurred new ways of addressing the compelling nature of the visual. The twentieth century also saw the development of the discipline of art history; transfusions between cinematic practice and art historical postulates are part of the story told here.

Contents:

The new and the old in the art of cinema

The machine aesthetic

Competing with text

After Eve.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Oct 2021).

Includes bibliographical references (pages [513]-536) and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed January 3, 2025)

ISBN:

1-003-70013-6

90-485-6181-7

90-485-5162-5

9781003700135

OCLC:

1265465772