Moving Pictures

by Mathews, Nancy Mowll

• ISBN13: 9781555952280
• ISBN10: 1555952283
• Edition: DVD
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: Hudson Hills Pr

Summary

This publication explores the complex relationship between American art and early film. Depicting turn-of-the-century photographs, film stills, posters, prints and paintings, the struggle between art and film is shown to both polarise and inspire the artists of the era. (With DVD)

Author Biography

Nancy Mowll Mathews is the Eugenie Prendergast Senior Curator of 19th and 20th Century Art and Lecturer in Art, Williams College Museum of Art.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
A cornucopia of images : comparison and judgment across theater, film, and the visual arts during the late nineteenth century	p. 5
Early film and American artistic traditions	p. 39
Experiencing nature in early film : dialogues with Church's Niagara and Homer's seascapes	p. 55
John Singer Sargent's moving pictures	p. 61
The line, the stitch, and the wardrobe : conjuring the past in American mural painting and film at the turn of the twentieth century	p. 66
The body in motion	p. 73
Chronophotography : leaving traces	p. 95
Frieze Frames : painted processions in American art about 1900	p. 100
"A personality so marked" : Eugen Sandow and visual culture	p. 104
On the canvas : boxing, art, and cinema	p. 111
The city in motion	p. 117
The impressionist city in motion : Childe Hassam and moving pictures in New York City, 1890-1900	p. 130
Tough girls	p. 134
John Sloan : movies and moving through the city	p. 139
Art and film : interactions	p. 145
The film crowd	p. 159
Seeing, touching, fleeing	p. 165
Moving images and the transformation of the image in modern vision	p. 168
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