Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History
Emison, Patricia.
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History - 1 online resource (584 pages). - Film Culture in Transition Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. The New and the Old in the Art of Cinema -- 2. The Machine Aesthetic -- 3. Competing with Text -- 4. After Eve -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of Films -- Index
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, 1920s-mid-60s, 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, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging 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 and preoccupations are part of the story told here.
9048551625 9789048551620
Art and motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.
Art, Renaissance.
Electronic Books.
N72 / .M685 2021
Moving Pictures and Renaissance Art History - 1 online resource (584 pages). - Film Culture in Transition Ser. .
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Prologue -- 1. The New and the Old in the Art of Cinema -- 2. The Machine Aesthetic -- 3. Competing with Text -- 4. After Eve -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- List of Films -- Index
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, 1920s-mid-60s, 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, narrative and visual composition shifted in both cases toward acknowledging 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 and preoccupations are part of the story told here.
9048551625 9789048551620
Art and motion pictures.
Motion pictures--History.
Art, Renaissance.
Electronic Books.
N72 / .M685 2021