Art Cinema
Celluloid Canvas: Film as an Artistic Medium
A compendium of the development and history of film as art
Movies should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order. —Jean-Luc Godard
Debate over cinema’s credibility as an art form is as old as the medium itself, and largely defined in terms of formal, psychological, ideological, social, or auteurist theories. To explore how artists are also using the medium to investigate a wider range of aesthetic issues that are generally related to modern and contemporary art practices, this book is broken down into 10 subgenres, including abstraction, collage, appropriation, post-surrealism, structuralism, duration, parody, and expanded cinema.
The history of each subgenre is illustrated by over 300 films and filmmakers, from past masters such as Hans Richter, Man Ray, and Stan Brakhage to contemporary artists Stan Douglas, Pipilotti Rist, and Doug Aitken; from art-house legends David Lynch, Jean-Luc Godard, and Luis Buñuel to underground icons and contemporary artists Kenneth Anger, Matthew Barney, Bruce Conner, Michael Snow, Owen Land, and Paul McCarthy.
About the editor:
Paul Duncan has edited 50 film books for TASCHEN, including the award-winning The Ingmar Bergman Archives, and authored Alfred Hitchcock and Stanley Kubrick in the Film Series.
About the author:
Paul Young, a journalist and curator based in Los Angeles, has a master’s degree in film directing, and has lectured on the state of video art in Berlin, Barcelona, and Madrid. He curated the exhibit "Remote Viewing: New Video Art from Europe, the Best of Loop" in Los Angeles and Madrid, and his articles have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and ARTnews.
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Art Cinema
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"As Young's luscious, comprehensive, and efficient TASCHEN release illustrates, the border between cinema and video art has always been a fluid one. Claiming a family tree with branches as diverse as those of Jean Cocteau and Michel Gondry, Luis Bunel, and David Lynch, Jean Luc Godard, and Matthew Barney, perhaps it's no wonder that scholars might be confounded - and the artists of a visually-oriented generation inspired - by its very heterogeneity. The book forms the perfect context for Young's show and the dozens of others on view around town, offering a crash course in video's past, just in time for LA's month-long intensive on the present and future."
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