BOOKS - Framing Pictures
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Framing Pictures
Author: Steven Jacobs
Year: July 3, 1905
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.8 MB
Language: English
Year: July 3, 1905
Format: PDF
File size: PDF 2.8 MB
Language: English
Through the feature films and documentaries of directors including Emmer Erice Godard Hitchcock Pasolini Resnais Rossellini and Storck Jacobs examines the way films animate artworks by means of cinematic techniques such as camera movements and editing or by integrating them into a narrative He explores how this mobilization of the artwork is brought into play in art documentaries and artist biopics as well as in feature films containing key scenes situated in museums The tension between stasis and movement is also discussed in relation to modernist cinema which often includes tableaux vivants combining pictorial sculptural and theatrical elements This tension also marks the aesthetics of the film still which have inspired prominent art photographers such as Cindy Sherman and Jeff Wall Illustrated throughout Jacobs study of the presence of art in film alongside the omnipresence of the filmic image in today s art museums is an engaging work for students and scholars of film and art alike
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