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9780300092400

On the Edge of Your Seat; Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300092400

  • ISBN10:

    0300092407

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2002-04-10
  • Publisher: Yale University Press
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $45.00

Summary

American artists in the early decades of the twentieth century found rich inspiration in vaudeville halls, revue theaters, and moving-picture houses. The spectacular new visual attractions in these venues, emerging partly as a result of such technological advances as electrical lighting of the stage and the invention of motion pictures, emboldened artists to translate the arresting stimuli to their own medium. This handsomely illustrated book is the first devoted to American artists' responses to film, popular theater, and other urban amusements from 1890 to 1930.

The book presents more than 100 paintings, drawings, watercolors, and photographs that convey the highly charged experience of attending vaudeville, early moving-picture shows, and other forms of popular amusements. These works of art reveal much about the beginnings of modernity in the United States and about how artists in early twentieth-century America searched for new pictorial vocabularies to express the profound change and dynamism of their time. The contributors to the volume represent a wid

Author Biography

Patricia McDonnell is curator at the Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota.

Table of Contents

Director's Forewordp. IX
Acknowledgmentsp. XI
American Early Modern Artists, Vaudeville, and Filmp. 3
It Begins with the Lights: Electrification and the Rise of Public Entertainmentp. 45
"A Decided Sensation": Cinema, Vaudeville, and Burlesquep. 61
Setting the Stage for Motion Picturesp. 91
In Order: Fragmentation in Film and Vaudevillep. 107
Charles Demuth's Vaudeville Watercolors and the Rhythm and Spectacle of Modern Lifep. 123
Edward Hopper and the Theater of the Mind: Vision, Spectacle, and the Spectatorp. 137
Everett Shinn and the Intimate Spectacle of Vaudevillep. 157
City, Stage, and Screen: John Sloan's Urban Theaterp. 175
"A Company of Ghosts, Playing to Spectral Music": Gesamtkunstkino and the Future of Digital Cinemap. 189
Selected Bibliographyp. 202
Notes on the Authorsp. 214
Indexp. 216
Photo Creditsp. 220
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