Dada, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect - Couverture souple

R. Bruce Elder (author)

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771121998 ISBN 13 : 9781771121996

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2015

Synopsis

This book deals with the early intellectual reception of the cinema and the manner in which art theorists, philosophers, cultural theorists, and especially artists of the first decades of the twentieth century responded to its advent. While the idea persists that early writers on film were troubled by the cinema's lowly form, this work proposes that there was another, largely unrecognized, strain in the reception of it. Far from anxious about film's provenance in popular entertainment, some writers and artists proclaimed that the cinema was the most important art for the moderns, as it exemplified the vibrancy of contemporary life. This view of the cinema was especially common among those whose commitments were to advanced artistic practices. Their notions about how to recast the art media (or the forms forged from those media's materials) and the urgency of doing so formed the principal part of the conceptual core of the artistic programs advanced by the vanguard art movements of the first half of the twentieth century. This book, a companion to the author's previous, Harmony & Dissent, examines the Dada and Surrealist movements as responses to the advent of the cinema.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

R. Bruce Elder is an award-winning filmmaker and teaches media at Ryerson University. His book Harmony & Dissent (WLU Press, 2008) received the prestigious Robert Motherwell Book Prize and was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Book. Rudolf Kuenzli described DADA, Surrealism, and the Cinematic Effect (WLU Press, 2013) as “that rare book that casts the early twentieth-century avant-garde in a very new light.”

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771121998
• ISBN 13: 9781771121996
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 776
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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