Film and Modern American Art: The Dialogue Between Cinema and Painting

by Katherine Manthorne, Katherine E. Manthorne, Katherine Manthorne

Book Overview

Between the 1890s and the 1930s, movie going became an established feature of everyday life across America. Movies constituted an enormous visual data bank and changed the way artist and public alike interpreted images. This book explores modern painting as a response to, and an appropriation of, the aesthetic possibilities pried open by cinema from its invention until the outbreak of World War II, when both the art world and the film industry...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367661705
• ISBN13: 9780367661700
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 154 Pages